Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
book:
whiston chapter:
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
View text chunked by:
Table of Contents:
book 1
book 2
book 3
book 6
book 7
book 8
book 10
book 12
book 13
book 14
book 15
book 16
book 18
[242]
Now Antiochus, upon the agreeable situation of the affairs of his
kingdom, resolved to make an expedition against Egypt, both because he
had a desire to gain it, and because he contemned the son of Ptolemy, as
now weak, and not yet of abilities to manage affairs of such consequence;
so he came with great forces to Pelusium, and circumvented Ptolemy Philometor
by treachery, and seized upon Egypt. He then came to the places about Memphis;
and when he had taken them, he made haste to Alexandria, in hopes of taking
it by siege, and of subduing Ptolemy, who reigned there. But he was driven
not only from Alexandria, but out of all Egypt, by the declaration of the
Romans, who charged him to let that country alone; according as I have
elsewhere formerly declared. I will now give a particular account of what
concerns this king, how he subdued Judea and the temple; for in my former
work I mentioned those things very briefly, and have therefore now thought
it necessary to go over that history again, and that with great accuracy.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
Tufts University provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
show
Browse Bar
hide
Places (automatically extracted)
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.
hide
Search
hideStable Identifiers
hide
Display Preferences