c. AD 77

J. BJ 7.96

The Wars of the Jews 7.96

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

7.96

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

961. Now Titus Caesar tarried some time at Berytus, as we told you before. He thence removed, and exhibited magnificent shows in all those cities of Syria through which he went, and made use of the captive Jews as public instances of the destruction of that nation. He then saw a river as he went along, of such a nature as deserves to be recorded in history;