c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.309

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.309

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.309

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

309That they would say nothing of the corruption of the chastity of their virgins, and the reproach laid on their wives for incontinency, and those things acted after an insolent and inhuman manner; because it was not a smaller pleasure to the sufferers to have such things concealed, than it would have been not to have suffered them. That Herod had put such abuses upon them as a wild beast would not have put on them, if he had power given him to rule over us;