The Wars of the Jews, 1.474

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

« J. BJ 1.473 | J. BJ 1.474 | J. BJ 1.475 | About This Work »

474All men did therefore already pay their respects to Antipater, in hopes of advantage; and it was the king’s command which alienated everybody [from the brethren], he having given this charge to his most intimate friends, that they should not come near, nor pay any regard, to Alexander, or to his friends. Herod was also become terrible, not only to his domestics about the court, but to his friends abroad; for Caesar had given such a privilege to no other king as he had given to him, which was this:—that he might fetch back anyone that fled from him, even out of a city that was not under his own jurisdiction.

« J. BJ 1.473 | J. BJ 1.474 | J. BJ 1.475 | About This Work »

Table of contents