c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.217

The Wars of the Jews 6.217

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.217

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

217That, however, this horrid action of eating one’s own child ought to be covered with the overthrow of their very country itself, and men ought not to leave such a city upon the habitable earth to be seen by the sun, wherein mothers are thus fed,