The Wars of the Jews, 4.488

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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488So when he had taken the city, which he did at the first onset, he slew a thousand of those young men who had not prevented him by flying away; but he took their families captive, and permitted his soldiers to plunder them of their effects; after which he set fire to their houses, and went away to the adjoining villages,

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