c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.427

The Wars of the Jews 1.427

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.427

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

427For when he perceived that they were come to nothing, for want of money, and that the only remains of ancient Greece were in a manner gone, he not only became one of the combatants in that return of the fifth-year games, which in his sailing to Rome he happened to be present at, but he settled upon them revenues of money for perpetuity, insomuch that his memorial as a combatant there can never fail.