c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.23

The Wars of the Jews 1.23

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.23

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

239. After this, [I shall relate] how, When the Jews’ affairs were become very bad, Nero died, and Vespasian, when he was going to attack Jerusalem, was called back to take the government upon him; what signs happened to him relating to his gaining that government, and what mutations of government then happened at Rome,