c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.84

The Wars of the Jews 2.84

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.84

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

842. And now, upon the permission that was given the accusers to speak, they, in the first place, went over Herod’s breaches of their law, and said that he was not a king, but the most barbarous of all tyrants, and that they had found him to be such by the sufferings they underwent from him; that when a very great number had been slain by him, those that were left had endured such miseries, that they called those that were dead happy men;