c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.470

The Wars of the Jews 5.470

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.470

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

470and as the cross beams that supported the banks were burning, the ditch yielded on the sudden, and the banks were shaken down, and fell into the ditch with a prodigious noise.