![]() ![]() ![]() Omnibus autem belli partibus administratis, et laudare universum cupiebat exercitum pro rebus fortiter gestis, et debita viris fortibus præmia persolvere.īut Cæsar decided to leave there the Tenth Legion and a few squadrons of cavalry and cohorts of infantry. This, as a result of the madness of those who attempted to bring about a revolution, was indeed the end for Jerusalem, a most famous city and one greatly praised among all men.Ĭæsar autem præsidio quidem illic statuit relinquere Decimam Legionem, nonnullasque alas equitum, ac peditum cohortes. ![]() Hic quidem finis eorum dementia, qui novas res movere temptaverunt, Hierosolymis fuit, clarissimæ civitati, et apud omnes homines prædicatissimæ.ĭemolishing it, they leveled the other whole perimeter of the City to the point that whoever came there would hardly believe it ever to have been inhabited. POSTQUAM vero quos occideret quidve raperet, non habebat exercitus, quod iratis animis omnia deerant (nec enim parcendo si esset quod agerent, abstinuissent), jubet eos Cæsar totam funditus jam eruere civitatem ac templum : relictis quidem turribus, quæ præter alias eminebant, Phasaëlo, et Hippico, et Mariamne, murique tanto, quantum civitatem ab Occidente cingebat - id quidem, ut esset castrum illic custodiæ causa relinquendis : turres autem, ut posteris indicarent qualem civitatem, quamve munitissimam, Romanorum virtus obtinuisset.Īfter the army did not have anyone to kill or anything to plunder, because everything was lacking for their enraged emotions (since indeed they would not have abstained by sparing anything if it there were something to go after), Cæsar ordered them to destroy completely the City and the Temple, leaving just the towers which stood higher than the others, Phasaël, and Hippicus, et Mariamne, and as much of the wall that surrounded the City on the west - which he ordered so that for the sake of the garrison there would be a camp for those to be left there and the towers so that they would show posterity what kind of or how greatly fortified a City the valor of the Romans had conquered.Īlium vero totum ambitum civitatis ita complanavere diruentes, ut qui ad eam accessissent, habitatam aliquando esse vix crederent. How the Entire City of Jerusalem Was Demolished, Excepting Three Towers and How Titus Commended His Soldiers in a Speech Made to Them, and Distributed Rewards to Them and Then Dismissed Many of Them. Quomodo tota Hierosolymorum urbs plane diruta est præter tres turres : utque Titus in contione extollit milites, et præmia illis distribuit, multosque dimittit. Flavius Josephus Flavius Josephus Flavii Josephi Hierosolymitani Sacerdotisįrom the Taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the Sedition of the Jews at Cyrene.
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