c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.500

The Wars of the Jews 2.500

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.500

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

500so he took out of Antioch the twelfth legion entire, and out of each of the rest he selected two thousand, with six cohorts of footmen, and four troops of horsemen, besides those auxiliaries which were sent by the kings; of which Antiochus sent two thousand horsemen, and three thousand footmen, with as many archers; and Agrippa sent the same number of footmen, and one thousand of horsemen;