c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.21

The Wars of the Jews 1.21

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.21

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

218. As also [I shall relate] how they built walls about the neighboring cities; and how Nero, upon Cestuis’s defeat, was in fear of the entire event of the war, and thereupon made Vespasian general in this war; and how this Vespasian, with the elder of his sons, made an expedition into the country of Judea; what was the number of the Roman army that he made use of; and how many of his auxiliaries were cut off in all Galilee; and how he took some of its cities entirely, and by force, and others of them by treaty, and on terms.