c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.599

The Wars of the Jews 1.599

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.599

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

599Then did the ghosts of Alexander and Aristobulus go round all the palace, and became the inquisitors and discoverers of what could not otherwise have been found out and brought such as were the freest from suspicion to be examined; whereby it was discovered that Mariamne, the high priest’s daughter, was conscious of this plot; and her very brothers, when they were tortured, declared it so to be.