c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.315

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.315

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.315

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

315but they took this just punishment as an affront, and carried off all the weapons which were kept in that house, which were not a few, and went into a certain place where was a partition of the rivers, and was a place naturally very fit for the feeding of cattle, and for preserving such fruits as were usually laid up against winter. The poorest sort of the young men also resorted to them, whom they armed with the weapons they had gotten, and became their captains; and nothing hindered them from being their leaders into mischief;