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Fragment 31

Josephus says that while Moses was being brought up in the Palace,...

Josephus says1 that while Moses was being brought up in the Palace,2 he, appointed General against the Æthiopians and overcoming, married that king’s daughter, seeing that of her longing for him she betrays the city to him.


  1. b from a Vienna Ms., Mr. Harvey also points out that it is in a Cambridge Ms: it is also extant in the Leipzig Catena (i. 1239) as an anonymons Piece, its editor refers it to Procopius, but Procopius ad loc. cites Josephus rather differently. The next piece I have omitted, it is from Theodoret, Quaestio 23 in Numeros. 

  2. Ant. ii. 10.