c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.85

The Wars of the Jews 5.85

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.85

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

855. This march of the Romans seemed to the Jews to be a flight; and as the watchman who was placed upon the wall gave a signal by shaking his garment, there came out a fresh multitude of Jews, and that with such mighty violence, that one might compare it to the running of the most terrible wild beasts.