c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.48

The Wars of the Jews 5.48

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.48

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

48All these came before the engines; and after these engines came the tribunes and the leaders of the cohorts, with their select bodies; after these came the ensigns, with the eagle; and before those ensigns came the trumpeters belonging to them; next to these came the main body of the army in their ranks, every rank being six deep;