Part 59 (2/2)

[Sidenote: Mounds and their positions Struthios reservoir]

[Sidenote: Adalon]

”One of those at the Antonia was thrown up by the fifth legion, opposite to the middle of the reservoir, called Struthios; and the other by the twelfth legion at the distance of about twenty cubits The tenth legion, which was considerably apart from these, was occupied on the northern quarter, and by the reservoir designated Adalon, and about thirty cubits froh-priest's monument”

V XI 4

[Sidenote: The assailantsat the camp of the assyrians, where his own tent was pitched, he drew the wall to the lower Caenopolis, and thence through the Kedron to the Mount of Olives Then bending back towards the south, he encompassed thehill, which overhangs the ravine near Siloa towards the west, he went down into the valley of the Fountain, beyond which he ascended by thein theas far as a ha which, he enclosed Herod's monument, and on the east once more united it to his own camp at the point whence it co one Attached to it on the outside were thirteen forts, whose united circus” V XII 2

[Sidenote: Number of the dead]

”Mannaeus, the son of Lazarus, who at this period took refuge with titus, declared that, from the fourteenth of the month of Xanthicus, the day on which the Romans encamped before the walls, until the new ate which had been entrusted to hihty corpses” V XIII 7

[Sidenote: Nuher ranks escaped; and they brought word that full six hundred thousand of the huates Of the others it was impossible to ascertain the number” V XIII 7

[Sidenote: Excavations in Jerusalem]

”The Jews fled into the teh the mine which John had excavated under their mounds” VI I 7

[Sidenote: titus destroys the Tower Antonia]

”titus now ordered his troops to raze the foundations of the Antonia, and prepare an easy ascent for his whole force” VI II 1

[Sidenote: titus enters the outer court of the Temple]

”In thein seven days overturned the foundation of the Antonia, had prepared a wide ascent as far as the teions now approached the first wall, and cole of the inner temple, a second at the northern cha two, one at the western colonnade of the outer court of the temple, the other without, at the northern” VI II

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[Sidenote: titus takes the Temple]

”titus noithdrew into the Antonia, deter about daybreak to attack with his whole force and invest the te since destined to the fla years had arrived the fated day, the tenth of the month Lous, the very day on which the for of Babylon” VI IV 5

[Sidenote: Bridge of Xystus]

”titus took his stand on the western side of the outer court of the teate in that quarter beyond the Xystus, and a bridge which connected the upper toith the temple, and which then intervened between the tyrants and Caesar” VI VI 2

[Sidenote: titus gives up the city to pillage]

”Orders were then issued to the troops to plunder and burn the city On that day, however, nothing was done; but on the following day they set fire to the residence of the istrates, the Acra, the council cha as far as the palace of queen Helena, which was in the centre of the Acra The streets also were consumed” VI VI 3

[Sidenote: The Ro day the Roands from the lower town, burned all, as far as Siloam” VI VII 2