c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.153

The Wars of the Jews 5.153

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.153

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

153for the city could no way have been taken if that wall had been finished in the manner it was begun; as its parts were connected together by stones twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad, which could never have been either easily undermined by any iron tools, or shaken by any engines.