The Wars of the Jews, 6.172

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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172So there being nobody that came out to accept the man’s challenge, and the Jew cutting them with a great number of reproaches, as cowards (for he was a very haughty man in himself, and a great despiser of the Romans), one whose name was Pudens, of the body of horsemen, out of his abomination of the other’s words, and of his impudence withal, and perhaps out of an inconsiderate arrogance, on account of the other’s lowness of stature, ran out to him,

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