c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.588

The Wars of the Jews 2.588

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.588

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

588He took care that none of his partners should be easily caught in their rogueries, but chose such out of the rest as had the strongest constitutions of body, and the greatest courage of soul, together with great skill in martial affairs; so he got together a band of four hundred men, who came principally out of the country of Tyre, and were vagabonds that had run away from its villages;