c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.280

The Wars of the Jews 5.280

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.280

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

280nay, the bolder sort leaped out by troops upon the hurdles that covered the machines, and pulled them to pieces, and fell upon those that belonged to them, and beat them, not so much by any skill they had, as principally by the boldness of their attacks.