c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.59

The Wars of the Jews 3.59

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.59

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

591. Now the auxiliaries which were sent to assist the people of Sepphoris, being a thousand horsemen, and six thousand footmen, under Placidus the tribune, pitched their camp in two bodies in the great plain. The footmen were put into the city to be a guard to it, but the horsemen lodged abroad in the camp.