c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.275

The Wars of the Jews 3.275

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.275

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

275and as the men were cooped up in their headpieces and breastplates, they could no way get free from this burning oil; they could only leap and roll about in their pains, as they fell down from the bridges they had laid. And as they thus were beaten back, and retired to their own party, who still pressed them forward, they were easily wounded by those that were behind them.