c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.305

The Wars of the Jews 2.305

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.305

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

3059. Florus was more provoked at this, and called out aloud to the soldiers to plunder that which was called the Upper Market-place, and to slay such as they met with. So the soldiers, taking this exhortation of their commander in a sense agreeable to their desire of gain, did not only plunder the place they were sent to, but forcing themselves into every house, they slew its inhabitants;