c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.316

The Wars of the Jews 3.316

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.316

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

31633. But as the people of Jotapata still held out manfully, and bore up under their miseries beyond all that could be hoped for, on the forty-seventh day [of the siege] the banks cast up by the Romans were become higher than the wall;