The Wars of the Jews, 2.564

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

« J. BJ 2.563 | J. BJ 2.564 | J. BJ 2.565 | About This Work »

564for they did not ordain Eleazar the son of Simon to that office, although he had gotten into his possession the prey they had taken from the Romans, and the money they had taken from Cestius, together with a great part of the public treasures, because they saw he was of a tyrannical temper, and that his followers were, in their behavior, like guards about him.

« J. BJ 2.563 | J. BJ 2.564 | J. BJ 2.565 | About This Work »

Table of contents