c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.518

The Wars of the Jews 5.518

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.518

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

518Now the seditious at first gave orders that the dead should be buried out of the public treasury, as not enduring the stench of their dead bodies. But afterwards, when they could not do that, they had them cast down from the walls into the valleys beneath.