c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.350

The Wars of the Jews 6.350

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.350

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

350However, I will not imitate your madness. If you throw down your arms, and deliver up your bodies to me, I grant you your lives; and I will act like a mild master of a family; what cannot be healed shall be punished, and the rest I will preserve for my own use.”