c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.261

The Wars of the Jews 3.261

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.261

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

261and that they should set before their eyes how their old men were to be slain, and their children and wives were to be killed immediately by the enemy; and that they would beforehand spend all their fury, on account of the calamities just coming upon them, and pour it out on the actors.