c. AD 94

J. AJ 19.337

The Antiquities of the Jews 19.337

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

19.337

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

337and there it was that he exhibited the several antagonists, in order to please the spectators; no fewer indeed than seven hundred men to fight with seven hundred other men and allotted all the malefactors he had for this exercise, that both the malefactors might receive their punishment, and that this operation of war might be a recreation in peace. And thus were these criminals all destroyed at once.