c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.258

The Wars of the Jews 3.258

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.258

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

25825. But Josephus, understanding the meaning of Vespasian’s contrivance, set the old men, together with those that were tired out, at the sound parts of the wall, as expecting no harm from those quarters, but set the strongest of his men at the place where the wall was broken down, and before them all six men by themselves, among whom he took his share of the first and greatest danger.