c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.340

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.340

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.340

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

340nay, the very subterranean vaults and cellars had no less of architecture bestowed on them than had the buildings above ground. Some of these vaults carried things at even distances to the haven and to the sea; but one of them ran obliquely, and bound all the rest together, that both the rain and the filth of the citizens were together carried off with ease, and the sea itself, upon the flux of the tide from without, came into the city, and washed it all clean.