c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.519

The Wars of the Jews 1.519

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.519

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

519He also, by a bait that he laid for him, procured Aristobulus to say the same things. Thus did he inveigle both the brothers to make complaints of their father, and then went to Antipater, and carried these grand secrets to him. He also added a fiction of his own, as if his brothers had laid a plot against him, and were almost ready to come upon him with their drawn swords. For this intelligence he received a great sum of money, and on that account he commended Antipater before his father,