c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.370

The Wars of the Jews 1.370

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.370

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

370But as he was avenging himself on his enemies, there fell upon him another providential calamity; for in the seventh year of his reign, when the war about Actium was at the height, at the beginning of the spring, the earth was shaken, and destroyed an immense number of cattle, with thirty thousand men; but the army received no harm, because it lay in the open air.