c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.542

The Wars of the Jews 2.542

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.542

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

542and now Cestius lay all night at the camp which was at Scopus; and as he went off farther next day, he thereby invited the enemy to follow him, who still fell upon the hindmost, and destroyed them; they also fell upon the flank on each side of the army, and threw darts upon them obliquely,