c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.417

The Wars of the Jews 1.417

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.417

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

4179. Herod was also a lover of his father, if any other person ever was so; for he made a monument for his father, even that city which he built in the finest plain that was in his kingdom, and which had rivers and trees in abundance, and named it Antipatris. He also built a wall about a citadel that lay above Jericho, and was a very strong and very fine building, and dedicated it to his mother, and called it Cypros.