c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.45

The Wars of the Jews 3.45

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.45

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

45yet hath it a moist soil [in other parts], and produces all kinds of fruits, and its plains are planted with trees of all sorts, while yet the olive tree, the vine, and the palm tree are chiefly cultivated there. It is also sufficiently watered with torrents, which issue out of the mountains, and with springs that never fail to run, even when the torrents fail them, as they do in the dog-days.