c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.279

The Wars of the Jews 5.279

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.279

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

279So on both sides they laid aside their hatred and their peculiar quarrels, and formed themselves into one body; they then ran round the walls, and having a vast number of torches with them, they threw them at the machines, and shot darts perpetually upon those that impelled those engines which battered the wall;