c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.184

The Wars of the Jews 1.184

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.184

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

184But envy prevented any effect of Aristobulus’s alacrity, and the hopes of Caesar; for he was taken off by poison given him by those of Pompey’s party; and, for a long while, he had not so much as a burial vouchsafed him in his own country; but his dead body lay [above ground], preserved in honey, until it was sent to the Jews by Antony, in order to be buried in the royal sepulchres.