c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.297

The Wars of the Jews 1.297

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.297

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

2976. And here it was that Silo discovered he had taken bribes; for he set many of the soldiers to clamor about their want of necessaries, and to require their pay, in order to buy themselves food, and to demand that he would lead them into places convenient for their winter quarters; because all the parts about the city were laid waste by the means of Antigonus’s army, which had taken all things away. By this he moved the army, and attempted to get them off the siege;