The Antiquities of the Jews, 16.4

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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4But this law, thus enacted, in order to introduce a severe and illegal punishment, seemed to be a piece of insolence of Herod, when he did not act as a king, but as a tyrant, and thus contemptuously, and without any regard to his subjects, did he venture to introduce such a punishment.

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