c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.499

The Wars of the Jews 5.499

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.499

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

499That therefore his opinion was, that if they aimed at quickness joined with security, they must build a wall round about the whole city; which was, he thought, the only way to prevent the Jews from coming out any way, and that then they would either entirely despair of saving the city, and so would surrender it up to him, or be still the more easily conquered when the famine had further weakened them;