c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.210

The Wars of the Jews 2.210

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.210

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

210that, however, [if it must come to that,] it was proper to choose a place without the city for the war, because it was not agreeable to piety to pollute the temples of their own city with the blood of their own countrymen, and this only on occasion of their imprudent conduct. And when Agrippa had heard this message, he delivered it to the senators.