c. AD 77

J. BJ 4.5

The Wars of the Jews 4.5

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

4.5

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

5for it was situated upon a rough ridge of a high mountain, with a kind of neck in the middle: where it begins to ascend, it lengthens itself, and declines as much downward before as behind, insomuch that it is like a camel in figure, from whence it is so named, although the people of the country do not pronounce it accurately.