The Wars of the Jews, 2.467

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

« J. BJ 2.466 | J. BJ 2.467 | J. BJ 2.468 | About This Work »

467nay, their alacrity was so very great, that those of Scythopolis suspected them. These were afraid, therefore, lest they should make an assault upon the city in the nighttime, and, to their great misfortune, should thereby make an apology for themselves to their own people for their revolt from them. So they commanded them, that in case they would confirm their agreement and demonstrate their fidelity to them, who were of a different nation, they should go out of the city, with their families, to a neighboring grove;

« J. BJ 2.466 | J. BJ 2.467 | J. BJ 2.468 | About This Work »

Table of contents