c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.516

The Wars of the Jews 5.516

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.516

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

516for they brake open those houses which were no other than graves of dead bodies, and plundered them of what they had; and carrying off the coverings of their bodies, went out laughing, and tried the points of their swords in their dead bodies; and, in order to prove what metal they were made of they thrust some of those through that still lay alive upon the ground;