c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.291

The Wars of the Jews 2.291

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.291

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

291Hereupon Jucundus, the master of the horse, who was ordered to prevent the fight, came thither, and took away the earthen vessel, and endeavored to put a stop to the sedition; but when he was overcome by the violence of the people of Caesarea, the Jews caught up their books of the law, and retired to Narbata, which was a place to them belonging, distant from Caesarea sixty furlongs.