c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.3

The Wars of the Jews 2.3

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.3

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

3for that when the soldiers would have set the diadem on his head at Jericho, he would not accept of it; but that he would make abundant requitals, not to the soldiers only, but to the people, for their alacrity and goodwill to him, when the superior lords [the Romans] should have given him a complete title to the kingdom; for that it should be his study to appear in all things better than his father.