c. AD 77

J. BJ 4.537

The Wars of the Jews 4.537

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

4.537

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

537Some places they burnt down, some they utterly demolished, and whatsoever grew in the country, they either trod it down or fed upon it, and by their marches they made the ground that was cultivated harder and more untractable than that which was barren. In short, there was no sign remaining of those places that had been laid waste, that ever they had had a being.