c. AD 77

J. BJ 4.384

The Wars of the Jews 4.384

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

4.384

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

384To say all in a word, no other gentle passion was so entirely lost among them as mercy; for what were the greatest objects of pity did most of all irritate these wretches, and they transferred their rage from the living to those that had been slain, and from the dead to the living.