c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.158

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.158

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.158

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

158When they had taken this resolution, they came out of their trenches, but could no way sustain the fight, being too much disabled, both in mind and body, and having not room to exert themselves, and thought it an advantage to be killed, and a misery to survive; so at the first onset there fell about seven thousand of them,