c. AD 77

J. BJ 4.469

The Wars of the Jews 4.469

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

4.469

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

469This country withal produces honey from bees; it also bears that balsam which is the most precious of all the fruits in that place, cypress trees also, and those that bear myrobalanum; so that he who should pronounce this place to be divine would not be mistaken, wherein is such plenty of trees produced as are very rare, and of the most excellent sort.