The Wars of The Jews, Flavius Josephus [ebook reader with built in dictionary .TXT] 📗

that our city Jerusalem hadarrived at a higher degree of felicity than any other city underthe Roman government, and yet at last fell into the sorest ofcalamities again. Accordingly, it appears to me that themisfortunes of all men, from the beginning of the world, if theybe compared to these of the Jews (3) are not so considerable asthey were; while the authors of them were not foreigners neither.This makes it impossible for me to contain my lamentations. Butif any one be inflexible in his censures of me, let him attributethe facts themselves to the historical part, and the lamentationsto the writer himself only.

5. However, I may justly blame the learned men among the Greeks,who, when such great actions have been done in their own times,which, upon the comparison, quite eclipse the old wars, do yetsit as judges of those affairs, and pass bitter censures upon thelabors of the best writers of antiquity; which moderns, althoughthey may be superior to the old writers in eloquence, yet arethey