... years later, when Nero had committed suicide and Vespasian had become Emperor, he granted Josephus his freedom, rewarded him greatly, and gave him his family name of Flavius. Joseph Ben-Mattathias had now become Flavius Josephus. War of the Jews, Book 3, Ch 8 "Thou, O Vespasian, thinkest no more than that thou hast taken Josephus himself captive; but I come to thee as a messenger of greater tidings; for had not I been sent by God to thee, I knew what was the law of the Jews in this case? And how it becomes generals to die. Dost thou send me to Nero? For why? Are Nero's successors till they come to thee still alive? Thou, O Vespasian, art Caesar and emperor, thou, and this thy son. Bind me now still faster, and keep me for thyself, for thou, O Caesar, are not only lord over me, but over the land and ...

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