c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.287

The Wars of the Jews 1.287

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.287

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

287and he had been so quick as to have been gone out of the fortress already, unless, on that very night when he was going away, there had fallen a great deal of rain, insomuch that his reservoirs were full of water, and so he was under no necessity of running away. After which, therefore, they made an irruption upon Antigonus’s party, and slew a great many of them, some in open battles, and some in private ambush; nor had they always success in their attempts, for sometimes they were beaten, and ran away.