c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.515

The Wars of the Jews 5.515

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.515

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

515Nor was there any lamentations made under these calamities, nor were heard any mournful complaints; but the famine confounded all natural passions; for those who were just going to die looked upon those that were gone to their rest before them with dry eyes and open mouths. A deep silence also, and a kind of deadly night, had seized upon the city; while yet the robbers were still more terrible than these miseries were themselves;