c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.493

The Wars of the Jews 5.493

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.493

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

493But of those that were for a more cautious management, some were for raising their banks again; and others advised to let the banks alone, but to lie still before the city, to guard against the coming out of the Jews, and against their carrying provisions into the city, and so to leave the enemy to the famine, and this without direct fighting with them;