c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.608

The Wars of the Jews 1.608

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.608

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

6083. Now the king, being desirous to get this plotter against him into his hands, and being also afraid lest he should some way come to the knowledge how his affairs stood, and be upon his guard, he dissembled his anger in his epistle to him, as in other points he wrote kindly to him, and desired him to make haste, because if he came quickly, he would then lay aside the complaints he had against his mother; for Antipater was not ignorant that his mother had been expelled out of the palace.