c. AD 77

J. BJ 4.412

The Wars of the Jews 4.412

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

4.412

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

412Vespasian did, indeed, already pity the calamities these men were in, and arose, in appearance, as though he was going to besiege Jerusalem,—but in reality to deliver them from a [worse] siege they were already under.