c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.44

The Wars of the Jews 1.44

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.44

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

44Now he that governed the elephant was but a private man; and had he proved to be Antiochus, Eleazar had performed nothing more by this bold stroke than that it might appear he chose to die, when he had the bare hope of thereby doing a glorious action;