c. AD 77

J. BJ 4.592

The Wars of the Jews 4.592

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

4.592

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

5923. But now his commanders and soldiers met in several companies, and consulted openly about changing the public affairs;—and, out of their indignation, cried out, how “at Rome there are soldiers that live delicately, and when they have not ventured so much as to hear the fame of war, they ordain whom they please for our governors, and in hopes of gain make them emperors;