c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.234

The Wars of the Jews 3.234

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.234

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

23422. After these men’s performances, Josephus, and the rest of the multitude with him, took a great deal of fire, and burnt both the machines and their coverings, with the works belonging to the fifth and to the tenth legion, which they put to flight; when others followed them immediately, and buried those instruments and all their materials under ground.