c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.475

The Wars of the Jews 1.475

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.475

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

475Now the young men were not acquainted with the calumnies raised against them; for which reason they could not guard themselves against them, but fell under them; for their father did not make any public complaints against either of them; though in a little time they perceived how things were by his coldness to them, and by the great uneasiness he showed upon anything that troubled him. Antipater had also made their uncle Pheroras to be their enemy, as well as their aunt Salome, while he was always talking with her, as with a wife, and irritating her against them.