c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.346

The Wars of the Jews 3.346

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.346

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

346for he gathered suspicions from the probability there was that one who had done so many things against the Romans must suffer for it, though not from the mild temper of those that invited him. However, he was afraid that he was invited to come up in order to be punished, until Vespasian sent besides these a third tribune, Nicanor, to him; he was one that was well known to Josephus, and had been his familiar acquaintance in old time.