c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.340

The Wars of the Jews 1.340

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.340

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

3407. Now when at the evening Herod had already dismissed his friends to refresh themselves after their fatigue, and when he was gone himself, while he was still hot in his armor, like a common soldier, to bathe himself, and had but one servant that attended him, and before he was gotten into the bath, one of the enemies met him in the face with a sword in his hand, and then a second, and then a third, and after that more of them;