c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.339

The Wars of the Jews 2.339

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.339

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

339but the wives of those that had been slain came running first of all and lamenting. The people also, when they heard their mourning, fell into lamentations also, and besought Agrippa to assist them: they also cried out to Neopolitanus, and complained of the many miseries they had endured under Florus; and they showed them, when they were come into the city, how the marketplace was made desolate, and the houses plundered.