c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.564

The Wars of the Jews 2.564

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.564

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

564for they did not ordain Eleazar the son of Simon to that office, although he had gotten into his possession the prey they had taken from the Romans, and the money they had taken from Cestius, together with a great part of the public treasures, because they saw he was of a tyrannical temper, and that his followers were, in their behavior, like guards about him.