c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.143

The Wars of the Jews 1.143

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.143

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

143So Aristobulus’s party was worsted, and retired into the temple, and cut off the communication between the temple and the city, by breaking down the bridge that joined them together, and prepared to make an opposition to the utmost; but as the others had received the Romans into the city, and had delivered up the palace to him, Pompey sent Piso, one of his great officers, into that palace with an army,