c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.548

The Wars of the Jews 5.548

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.548

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

5484. Hereupon some of the deserters, having no other way, leaped down from the wall immediately, while others of them went out of the city with stones, as if they would fight them; but thereupon they fled away to the Romans. But here a worse fate accompanied these than what they had found within the city; and they met with a quicker dispatch from the too great abundance they had among the Romans, than they could have done from the famine among the Jews;