Flavius Josephus — Against Apion 1:3
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Work: Flavius Josephus — Against Apion
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Flavius Josephus, Against Apion — William Whiston English translation
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How can it then be other than an absurd thing, for the Greeks to be so proud, and to vaunt themselves to be the only people that are acquainted with antiquity, and that have delivered the true accounts of those early times after an accurate manner? Nay, who is there that cannot easily gather from the Greek writers themselves, that they knew but little on any good foundation when they set to write, but rather wrote their histories from their own conjectures? Accordingly, they confute one another in their own books to purpose, and are not ashamed. to give us the most contradictory accounts of th…
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- Flavius Josephus, Against Apion — William Whiston English translation
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- grc
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- Not part of the public josephus_works Edition (Whiston Antiquities, PG 2848).
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