The Fate of Those Who Escape
Of those now deserting some had no choice but to move quickly and jump down from the wall: others sallied out with stones in their hands as if to do battle, and then fled to the Romans. But desertion brought with it a hazard more dangerous than anything faced inside the city, and these people found to their cost that Roman plenty was a more…
Josephus describes the miserable fates that await many of those who are able to escape Jerusalem during the Roman siege.
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