The Wars of the Jews, 3.223

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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223With this design he gave orders to fill sacks with chaff, and to hang them down before that place where they saw the ram always battering, that the stroke might be turned aside, or that the place might feel less of the strokes by the yielding nature of the chaff.

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