Associations to the word «Josephus»

Wiktionary

JOSEPHUS, proper noun. Titus Flavius Josephus, a Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer
JOSEPHUS, proper noun. A male given name

Dictionary definition

JOSEPHUS, noun. Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats