c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.216

The Wars of the Jews 1.216

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.216

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

21610. In the meantime, there was a disturbance among the Romans about Apamia, and a civil war occasioned by the treacherous slaughter of Sextus Caesar, by Cecilius Bassus, which he perpetrated out of his goodwill to Pompey; he also took the authority over his forces; but as the rest of Caesar’s commanders attacked Bassus with their whole army, in order to punish him for the murder of Caesar,