The Death of Pilate

It is worth knowing that Pilate himself, the governor in the Savior’s time, fell under Gaius, whose times we are describing, into such misfortunes, the story goes, that he was forced to become his own murderer and to punish himself with his own hand. Divine justice, it seems, was not slow to overtake him. This is related by those Greek writers who recorded the Olympiads, together with what happened in each period. [a]