c. AD 77

J. BJ 4.563

The Wars of the Jews 4.563

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

4.563

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

563nay, while their faces looked like the faces of women, they killed with their right hands; and when their gait was effeminate, they presently attacked men, and became warriors, and drew their swords from under their finely dyed cloaks, and ran everybody through whom they alighted upon.