The Antiquities of the Jews, 18.272

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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272and this they did for forty days together, and in the mean time left off the tilling of their ground, and that while the season of the year required them to sow it. Thus they continued firm in their resolution, and proposed to themselves to die willingly, rather than to see the dedication of the statue.

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