The Antiquities of the Jews, 12.178

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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178And when he bid him name them who they were, he replied, “I give thee no other persons, O king, for my sureties, than thyself, and this thy wife; and you shall be security for both parties.” So Ptolemy laughed at the proposal, and granted him the farming of the taxes without any sureties.

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