The warnings put by josephus into the lips of the priests in his childhood, were likely enough to have been spoken by some one before he was forty years old.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
We learn from josephus that the Jews used hair-powder, and from the East it was no doubt imported into Rome.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Not much weight can be allowed to the late and very general statements of Nicolaus in josephus.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker