Part 59 (1/2)
[Sidenote: Forces of the besieged in Jerusaleents in the city was as follows Attached to Simon were ten thousand men, irrespective of the Idu as Commander-in-chief The Idumaeans who joined his ranks, five thousand in number, had ten leaders, of whom James, the son of Sosas, and Simon, the son of Cathlas, were reputed to be the foremost John, who had seized on the temple, had under his orders six thousand men-at-arms, commanded by twenty officers The Zealots, also, had now laid aside their differences and gone over to him, to the number of two thousand four hundred, led by Eleazar, their foreneral, and Simon, son of Ari” V VI 1
[Sidenote: Position occupied by Simon]
[Sidenote: Position occupied by John]
”Sireat wall, as far as the Kedron, with aseastward fro of Adiabene, beyond the Euphrates He held, likewise, the fountain and the Acra, which was the lower toith the interval as far as the palace of Helena, the mother of Monobazus John occupied the temple, and the parts about it to a considerable distance, with Ophla, and the valley called Kedron” V VI
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[Sidenote: titus exah priest John]
”While affairs in the city were in this posture, titus, with a select detachainst what quarter he should direct his attack Utterly at a loss on what side to assail theh the ravines, while on the other side, the first wall appeared too firines, he determined to h priest, for at this point the outer bulas lower, and the second was not connected, the builders having neglected to fortify those places where the neas thinly inhabited; but there was easy access to the third wall, through which he designed to capture the upper town, and through the Antonia, the temple” V VI 2
[Sidenote: Suburbs]
”He at once gave the legions permission to lay waste the suburbs, and ordered theether for the construction ofof the first Wall]
” The Ro mounted where Nico had effected a breach, they all abandoned their posts, and retreated to the second wall; when those who had scaled the raates, and ad thus, on the fifteenth day, which was the seventh of the reat part of it in ruins, as they did the northern quarters of the city, which Cestius had formerly demolished” V VII 2
[Sidenote: titus occupies the space between the camp of the assyrians and the Kedron]
[Sidenote: Gate of the aqueducts]
”titus now transferred his camp to a place within the wall, styled the Ca the entire interval as far as the Kedron, but keeping at such a distance froe of the missiles, and i their forces, hting from the Antonia, from the north colonnade of the te Alexander; while Si the assault near John's ate through which the water was introduced to the tower Hippicus” V VII 3
[Sidenote: titus makes himself master of the second Wall]
”On the fifth day after the reduction of the first wall Caesar stormed the second at this point; and as the Jews fled from it, he entered with a thousand men, and the select band which he retained about his person, at that part of the nehere were the wool-marts, the braziers'
shops, and the clothes market, and where the streets led obliquely to the ramparts” V VIII 1
[Sidenote: titus exhibits his troops]
”The cessation he e pay a arrived, he directed the officers to draw out the force, and count out the money to each man in view of the enemy” V IX 1
[Sidenote: The Jews see the review of the troops titus]
”And nothing could beto the enemy than that spectacle The whole of the ancient wall and the northern quarter of the temple were croith spectators, and the houses were to be seen filled with people on the look-out; nor was there a spot in the city which was not covered with multitudes” V IX 1
[Sidenote: The Idumaeans]
”Those at work beside the monument, the Idumaeans, and the troops of Simon, impeded by repeated sallies; while those before the Antonia were obstructed by John and his associates, in conjunction with the Zealots”
V IX 2