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  Speaker 1: Books seven, chapters six and seven of The Wars of
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  Speaker 1: by Josephus, translated by William Wiston, chapters six and seven.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six concerning Macharus and how Lucilius Basis took that
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  Speaker 1: citadel and other places. One Now, Lucilius Basis was sent
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  Speaker 1: as legate into Judea, and there he received the army
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  Speaker 1: from Cerealis Vitellianis, and took that citadel which was in Herodium,
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  Speaker 1: together with the garrison that was in it, after which
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  Speaker 1: he got together all the soldiery that was there, which
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  Speaker 1: was a large body, but dispersed into several parties with
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  Speaker 1: the tenth Legion, and resolved to make war upon Macharus.
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  Speaker 1: For it was highly necessary that this citadel should be demolished,
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  Speaker 1: less it might be a means of drawing away many
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  Speaker 1: into a rebellion by reason of its strength. For the
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  Speaker 1: nature of the place was very capable of affording the
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  Speaker 1: surest hopes of safety to those that possessed it, as
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  Speaker 1: well as delay and fear to those that should attack it.
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  Speaker 1: For what was walled in was itself a very rocky
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  Speaker 1: hill elevated to a very great height, which circumstance alone
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  Speaker 1: made it very hard to be subdued. It was also
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  Speaker 1: so contrived by nature that it could not be easily ascended.
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  Speaker 1: For it is, as it were, ditched about with such
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  Speaker 1: valleys on all sides, and to such a death that
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  Speaker 1: the eye cannot reach their bottoms, and such as are
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  Speaker 1: not easily to be passed over, and even such as
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  Speaker 1: it is impossible to fill up with earth. For that
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  Speaker 1: valley which cuts it on the west extends to threescore furlongs,
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  Speaker 1: and did not end till it came to the lake
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  Speaker 1: Asphaltitis on the same side. It was also that Macherus
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  Speaker 1: had the tallest top of its hill, elevated above the rest.
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  Speaker 1: But then for the valleys that lay on the north
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  Speaker 1: and south sides, although they be not so large as
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  Speaker 1: that already described, yet it is in like manner an
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  Speaker 1: impracticable thing to think of getting over them. And for
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  Speaker 1: the valley that lies on the east side, its depth
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  Speaker 1: is found to be no less than a hundred cubits
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  Speaker 1: it extends as far as a mountain that lies over
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  Speaker 1: against Macharus, with which it is bounded. Two Now, when
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  Speaker 1: Alexander Janius, the king of the Jews, observed the nature
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  Speaker 1: of this place, he was the first who built a
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  Speaker 1: citadel there, which afterwards was demolished by Gabinius when he
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  Speaker 1: made war against Aristobolus. But when Herod came to be king,
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  Speaker 1: he thought the place to be worthy of the utmost regard,
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  Speaker 1: and of being built upon in the firmest manner, And
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  Speaker 1: this especially because it lay so near to Arabia, For
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  Speaker 1: it is seated in a convenient place on that account,
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  Speaker 1: and hath a prospect toward that country. He therefore surrounded
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  Speaker 1: a large space of ground with walls and towers, and
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  Speaker 1: built a city there, out of which city there was
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  Speaker 1: a way that led up to the very citadel itself,
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  Speaker 1: on the top of the mountain. Nay more than this,
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  Speaker 1: he built a wall round that top of the hill,
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  Speaker 1: and erected towers at the corners of a hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty cubits high, in the middle of which place he
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  Speaker 1: built a palace after a magnificent manner, wherein were large
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful edifices. He also made a great many reservoirs
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  Speaker 1: for the reception of water, that there might be plenty
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  Speaker 1: of it ready for all uses, and those in the
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  Speaker 1: properest places that were afforded him. There. Thus did he,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, contend with the nature of the place,
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  Speaker 1: that he might exceed its natural strength and security, which
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  Speaker 1: yet itself rendered it hard to be taken by those
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  Speaker 1: fortifications which were made by the hands of men. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: he put a large quantity of darts and other machines
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  Speaker 1: of war into it, and contrived to get everything thither
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  Speaker 1: that might any way contribute to its inhabitants security under
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  Speaker 1: the longest siege possible. Three Now, within this place there
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  Speaker 1: grew a sort of roue that deserves our wonder on
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  Speaker 1: account of its largeness. Footnote. Spanheim observes here that in
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  Speaker 1: Gracia Major in Sicily, they had roue prodigiously great and
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  Speaker 1: durable like this roue at Macharis and footnote for it
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  Speaker 1: was no way inferior to any fig tree whatsoever, either
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  Speaker 1: in height or in thickness. And the report is that
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  Speaker 1: it had lasted ever since the times of Herod, and
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  Speaker 1: would probably have lasted much longer had it not been
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  Speaker 1: cut down by those Jews who took possession of the
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  Speaker 1: place afterward. But still in that valley which encompasses the
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  Speaker 1: city on the north side, there is a certain place
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  Speaker 1: called Baris, which produces a root of the same name
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  Speaker 1: with itself. Its color is like to that of flame,
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  Speaker 1: and towards the evenings it sends out a certain ray
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  Speaker 1: like lightning. It is not easily taken by such as
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  Speaker 1: would do it, but recedes from their hands, nor will
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  Speaker 1: yield itself to be taken quietly until either the urine
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  Speaker 1: of a woman or her menstrual blood be poured upon it. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: even then it is certain death to those that touch it,
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  Speaker 1: unless anyone take and hang the root itself down from
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  Speaker 1: his hand, and so carry it away. It may also
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  Speaker 1: be taken another way without danger, which is this. They
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  Speaker 1: dig a trench quite around it, till the hidden part
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  Speaker 1: of the root be very small. They then tie a
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  Speaker 1: dog to it, and when the dog tries hard to
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  Speaker 1: follow him that tied him. This root is easily plucked up,
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  Speaker 1: but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead
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  Speaker 1: of the man that would take the plant away. Nor
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  Speaker 1: after this need any one be afraid of taking it
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  Speaker 1: into their hands. Yet after all this pains in getting
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  Speaker 1: it is only valuable on account of one virtue at half,
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  Speaker 1: that if it be only brought to sick persons, it
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  Speaker 1: quickly drives away those called dear demons, which are no
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  Speaker 1: other than the spirits of the wicked, that enter into
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  Speaker 1: men that are alive and kill them unless they can
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  Speaker 1: obtain some help against them. Footnote. This strange account of
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  Speaker 1: the place and root bearess seems to have been taken
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  Speaker 1: from the magicians, and the root to have been made
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  Speaker 1: use of in the days of Josephus in that superstitious
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  Speaker 1: way of casting out demons, supposed by him to have
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  Speaker 1: been derived from King Solomon, of which we have already
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  Speaker 1: seen he had a great opinion. We also may hence
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  Speaker 1: learn the true notion Josephus had of demons and demoniacs,
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  Speaker 1: exactly like that of the Jews and Christians in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament and the first four centuries and footnote. Here
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  Speaker 1: are also fountains of hot water that flow out of
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  Speaker 1: this place, which have a very different taste one from
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  Speaker 1: the other, for some of them are bitter, and others
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  Speaker 1: of them are plainly sweet. Here are also many eruptions
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  Speaker 1: of cold waters, and this not only in the places
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  Speaker 1: that lie lower and have their fountains near one another.
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  Speaker 1: But what is still more wonderful here is to be
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  Speaker 1: seen a certain cave hard by whose cavity is not deep,
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  Speaker 1: but it is covered over by a rock that is prominent.
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  Speaker 1: Above this rock there stand up two hills, or breasts,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, but a little distant one from another,
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  Speaker 1: the one of which sends out a fountain that is
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  Speaker 1: very cold, and the other sends out one that is
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  Speaker 1: very hot, which waters, when they are mingled together, compose
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  Speaker 1: a most pleasant bath. They are medicinal, indeed for other maladies,
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  Speaker 1: but especially good for strengthening the nerves. This place has
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  Speaker 1: in it also mines of sulfur and alum. Four. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when Bassis had taken a full view of this place,
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  Speaker 1: he resolved to besiege it by filling up the valley
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  Speaker 1: that lay on the east side. So he fell hard
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  Speaker 1: to work, and took great pains to raise his banks
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible, and by that means to render
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  Speaker 1: the siege easy. As for the Jews that were caught
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  Speaker 1: in this place, they separated themselves from the strangers that
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  Speaker 1: were with them, and they forced those strangers as an
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  Speaker 1: otherwise useless multitude to stay in the lower part of
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  Speaker 1: the city and undergo the principal dangers, while they themselves
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  Speaker 1: seized on the upper citadel and held it, And this
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  Speaker 1: both on account of its strength and to provide for
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  Speaker 1: their own safety. They also supposed they might obtain their
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  Speaker 1: pardon in case they should at last surrender the citadel. However,
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  Speaker 1: they were willing to make trial in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: whether the hopes they had of avoiding a siege would
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  Speaker 1: come to anything, with which intention they made sallies every day,
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  Speaker 1: and fought with those that met them, in which conflicts
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  Speaker 1: they were, many of them slain, as they therein slew
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  Speaker 1: many of the Romans. But still it was the opportunities
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  Speaker 1: that presented themselves which chiefly gained both sides their victories.
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  Speaker 1: These were gained by the Jews when they fell upon
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  Speaker 1: the Romans as they were off their guard, but by
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  Speaker 1: the Romans when upon the others sallies against their banks.
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  Speaker 1: They foresaw their coming and were upon their lart when
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  Speaker 1: they received them. But the conclusion of this siege did
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  Speaker 1: not depend upon these bickerings. But a certain surprising accident
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  Speaker 1: relating to what was done in this siege forced the
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  Speaker 1: Jews to surrender the citadel. There was a certain young
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  Speaker 1: man among the besieged, of great boldness and very active
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  Speaker 1: of his hand. His name was Eliezar. He greatly signalized
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  Speaker 1: himself in those sallies and encouraged the Jews to go
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  Speaker 1: out in great numbers in order to hinder the raising
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  Speaker 1: of the banks, and did the Romans a vast deal
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  Speaker 1: of mischief when they came to fighting. He so managed
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  Speaker 1: matters that those who sallied out made their attacks easily
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  Speaker 1: and returned back without danger, and this by still bringing
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  Speaker 1: up the rear himself. Now it happened that on a
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  Speaker 1: certain time, when the fight was over and both sides
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  Speaker 1: were parted and retired home, he, in way of contempt
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy, and thinking that none of them would
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  Speaker 1: begin the fight again at that time, stayed without the
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  Speaker 1: gates and talked with those that were upon the wall,
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  Speaker 1: and his mind was wholly intent upon what they said. Now,
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  Speaker 1: a certain person belonging to the Roman camp, whose name
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  Speaker 1: was Rufus by birth an Egyptian, ran upon him suddenly
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  Speaker 1: when nobody expected such a thing, and carried him off
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  Speaker 1: with his armor itself. While in the meantime those that
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  Speaker 1: saw it from the wall were under such an amazement
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  Speaker 1: that Rufus prevented their assistance and carried Eliezar to the
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  Speaker 1: Roman camp. So the general of the Romans ordered that
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  Speaker 1: he should be taken up naked, set before the city
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  Speaker 1: to be seen, and sorely whipped before their eyes. Upon
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  Speaker 1: this sad accident that befell the young man, the Jews
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  Speaker 1: were terribly confounded, and the city, with one voice, sorely
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  Speaker 1: lamented him. And the morning proved greater than could well
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  Speaker 1: be supposed upon the calamity of a single person. When
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  Speaker 1: Bassis perceived that he began to think of using a
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  Speaker 1: stratagem against the enemy, and was desirous to aggravate their
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  Speaker 1: grief in order to prevail with them to surrender the
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  Speaker 1: city for the preservation of that man. Nor did he
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  Speaker 1: fail of his hope, for he commanded them to set
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  Speaker 1: up a cross, as if he were just going to
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  Speaker 1: hang Eliezar upon it. Immediately, the sight of this occasioned
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  Speaker 1: a sore grief among those that were in the citadel,
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  Speaker 1: and they groaned vehemently and cried out that they would
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  Speaker 1: not bear to see him thus destroyed. Whereupon Eliezar besought
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  Speaker 1: them not to disregard him. Now he was going to
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  Speaker 1: suffer a most miserable death, and exhorted them to save
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  Speaker 1: themselves by yielding to the Roman power and good fortune,
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  Speaker 1: since all other people were now conquered by them. These
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  Speaker 1: men were greatly moved with what he said, there being
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  Speaker 1: also many within the city that interceded for him, because
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  Speaker 1: he was of an eminent and very numerous man. So
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  Speaker 1: they now yielded to their passion of commiseration, contrary to
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  Speaker 1: their usual custom. Accordingly, they sent out immediately certain messengers
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  Speaker 1: and treated with the Romans in order to a surrender
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  Speaker 1: of the citadel to them, and desired that they might
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  Speaker 1: be permitted to go away and take Eliezar along with them.
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  Speaker 1: Then did the Romans and their general accept of these terms.
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  Speaker 1: While the multitude of strangers that were in the lower
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  Speaker 1: part of the city, hearing of the agreement that was
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  Speaker 1: made by the Jews for themselves alone, were resolved to
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  Speaker 1: fly away privately in the night time. But as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they had opened their gates, those that had come
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  Speaker 1: to terms with Basis told him of it, whether it
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  Speaker 1: were that they envied the other's deliverance, or whether it
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  Speaker 1: were done out of fear lest an occasion should be
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  Speaker 1: taken against them, upon their escape is uncertain. The most
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  Speaker 1: courageous therefore, of these men that went out prevented the
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  Speaker 1: enemy and got away and fled for it. But for
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  Speaker 1: those men that were caught within they rest of text
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  Speaker 1: is lost. Five. When Bassis had settled these affairs, he
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  Speaker 1: marched hastily to the forest of Jardin, as it is
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  Speaker 1: called for he had heard that a great many of
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  Speaker 1: those that had fled from Jerusalem and Macharus formerly were
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  Speaker 1: there gotten together. When he was therefore come to the place,
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  Speaker 1: and understood that the former news was no mistake, he
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  Speaker 1: in the first place surrounded the whole place with his horsemen,
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  Speaker 1: that such of the Jews as had boldness enough to
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  Speaker 1: try to break through, might have no way possible for escaping.
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  Speaker 1: By reason of the situation of those horsemen and for
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  Speaker 1: the footmen, he ordered them to cut down the trees
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  Speaker 1: that were in the wood whither they were fled. So
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  Speaker 1: the Jews were under a necessity of performing some glorious
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  Speaker 1: exploit and of greatly exposing themselves in a battle, since
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  Speaker 1: they might perhaps thereby escape. So they made a general attack,
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  Speaker 1: and with a great shout fell upon those that surrend
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  Speaker 1: founded them, who received them with great courage. And so
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  Speaker 1: while the one side fought desperately and the others would
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  Speaker 1: not yield, the fight was prolonged on that account. But
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  Speaker 1: the event of the battle did not answer the expectation
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  Speaker 1: of the assailants. For so it happened that no more
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  Speaker 1: than twelve fell on the Roman side, with a few
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  Speaker 1: that were wounded. But not one of the Jews escaped
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  Speaker 1: out of this battle. But they were all killed, being
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  Speaker 1: in the hole, not fewer in number than three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: together with Judas, the son of Jyrs, their general, concerning
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  Speaker 1: whom we have before spoken that he had been a
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  Speaker 1: captain of a certain band at the siege of Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: and by going down into a certain vault underground, had
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  Speaker 1: privately made his escape. Six About the same time, it
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  Speaker 1: was that Caesar sent a letter to Basis and to
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  Speaker 1: Liberius Maximus, who was the procurator of Judea, and gave
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  Speaker 1: order that all Judea should be exposed to sail, for
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  Speaker 1: he did not found any city there, but reserved the
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  Speaker 1: country for himself. Footnote. It is very remarkable that Titus
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  Speaker 1: did not people this now desolate country of Judea, but
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  Speaker 1: ordered it to be all sold, nor indeed is it
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  Speaker 1: properly peopled at this day, but lies ready for its
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  Speaker 1: old inhabitants, the Jews, and their future restoration and footnote. However,
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  Speaker 1: he assigned a place for eight hundred men only whom
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  Speaker 1: he had dismissed from his army, which he gave them
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  Speaker 1: for their habitation. It is called Emmaeus, and is distant
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  Speaker 1: from Jerusalem threescore furlongs. Footnote that the city Emmaeus or
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  Speaker 1: Arraindus in Josephus and others, which was the place of
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  Speaker 1: the government of Julius Africanus, were slain to the number
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  Speaker 1: of one thousand, seven hundred, as were the women and
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  Speaker 1: the children made slaves. But as Basis thought he must
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  Speaker 1: perform the covenant he had made with those that had
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  Speaker 1: surrendered the citadel, he let them go and restored Eliezar
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  Speaker 1: to them in the beginning of the third century, and
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  Speaker 1: which he then procured to be rebuilt, and after which
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding it was called Nicopolis. Is entirely different from that Emmaeus,
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  Speaker 1: which is mentioned by Saint Luke twenty four thirteen and
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  Speaker 1: under the name Ammaus also, but he justly thinks that
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  Speaker 1: that in Saint Luke may well be the same with
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  Speaker 1: his Amaeus before us, especially since the Greek copies here
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  Speaker 1: usually make it sixty furlongs distant from Jerusalem, as does
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  Speaker 1: Saint Luke, though the Latin copies say only thirty. The
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  Speaker 1: place also allotted for these eight hundred soldiers, as for
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  Speaker 1: a Roman garrison in this place would most naturally be
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  Speaker 1: not so remote from Jerusalem as was the other Emmaeus
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  Speaker 1: or Nicopolis. And footnote. He also laid a tribute upon
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  Speaker 1: the Jews wheresoever they were, and enjoined every one of
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  Speaker 1: them to bring two drac may every year into the capitol,
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  Speaker 1: as they used to pay the same to the temple
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  Speaker 1: at Jerusalem. And this was the state of the Jewish
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  Speaker 1: affairs at this time time Chapter seven concerning the calamity
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  Speaker 1: that befell Antiochus, king of Comajane, as also concerning the
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  Speaker 1: Allens and what great mischiefs they did to the Medes
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  Speaker 1: and Armenians. One and now, in the fourth year of
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  Speaker 1: the reign of Vespasian, it came to pass that Antiochus,
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  Speaker 1: the King of Comajane, with all his family, fell into
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  Speaker 1: very great calamities. The occasion was this Cesennius Pettus, who
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  Speaker 1: was president of Syria at this time. Whether it were
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  Speaker 1: done out of regard to truth, or whether out of
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  Speaker 1: hatred to Antiochus, for which was the real motive, was
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  Speaker 1: never thoroughly discovered, sent an epistle to Caesar, and therein
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  Speaker 1: told him that Antiochus, with his son Epiphanes, had resolved
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  Speaker 1: to rebel against the Romans, and had made a league
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  Speaker 1: with the king of Parthia to that purpose. That it
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  Speaker 1: was therefore fit to prevent them, lest they prevent us
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  Speaker 1: and begin such a war as may cause a gesneral
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  Speaker 1: disturbance in the Roman Empire. Now Caesar was disposed to
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  Speaker 1: take some care about the matter, since this discovery was
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  Speaker 1: made for the neighborhood of the kingdoms, made this affair
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  Speaker 1: worthy of greater regard. For Samoseta, the capital of Comajane,
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  Speaker 1: lies upon Euphrates, and upon any such design could afford
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  Speaker 1: an easy passage over it to the Parthians, and could
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  Speaker 1: also afford them a secure reception. Pidus was accordingly believed
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  Speaker 1: and had authority given him of doing what he should
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  Speaker 1: think proper in the case, So he set about it
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  Speaker 1: without delay, and fell upon Comajane before Antiochus and the
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  Speaker 1: people had the least expectation of his coming. He had
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  Speaker 1: with him the tenth Legion, as also some cohorts and
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  Speaker 1: troops of horsemen. These kings also came to his assistance Aristobulus,
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  Speaker 1: king of the country called Chelcedane, and Sohamus, who was
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  Speaker 1: called king of Emesa. Nor was there any opposition made
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  Speaker 1: to his forces when they entered the kingdom, for no
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  Speaker 1: one of that country would so much as lift up
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  Speaker 1: his hand against them. When Antiochus heard this unexpected news,
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  Speaker 1: he could not think in the least of making war
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  Speaker 1: with the Romans, but determined to leave his whole kingdom
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  Speaker 1: in the state wherein it now was, and to retire
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  Speaker 1: privately with his wife and children, as thinking thereby to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate himself to the Romans to be innocent as to
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  Speaker 1: the accusation laid against him. So he went away from
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  Speaker 1: that city as far as one hundred and twenty furlongs
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  Speaker 1: into a plain, and there pitched his tents. Two Pidus
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  Speaker 1: then sent some of his men to seize upon Samosate,
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  Speaker 1: and by their means took possession of that city, while
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  Speaker 1: he went himself to attack Antiochus with the rest of
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  Speaker 1: his army. However, the king was not prevailed upon by
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  Speaker 1: the distress he was in to do anything in the
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  Speaker 1: way of war against the Romans, but bemoaned his own
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  Speaker 1: hard fate and endured with patience what he was not
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  Speaker 1: able to prevent. But his sons, who were young and
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  Speaker 1: unexperienced in war, but of strong bodies, were not easily
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  Speaker 1: induced to bear this calamity without fighting epiphanies. Therefore, and
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  Speaker 1: Callinicus betook themselves to military force, And as the battle
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  Speaker 1: was a sore one and lasted all the day long,
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  Speaker 1: they showed their own valor in a remarkable manner, and
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the approach of night put a period there too,
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  Speaker 1: and that without any diminution of their forces. Yet would
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  Speaker 1: not Antiochus, upon this conclusion of the fight, continue there
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  Speaker 1: by any means, but took his wife and his daughters
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  Speaker 1: and fled away with them to Silesia, and by so
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  Speaker 1: doing quite discouraged the minds of his own soldiers. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: they revolted and went over to the Romans out of
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  Speaker 1: the despair they were in of his keeping the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and his case was looked upon by all as quite desperate.
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  Speaker 1: It was therefore necessary that Epiphanies and his soldiers should
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  Speaker 1: get clear of their enemy before they became entirely destitute
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  Speaker 1: of any confederates. Nor were there any more than ten
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  Speaker 1: horsemen with him who passed with him over Euphrates. Whence
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  Speaker 1: they went undisturbed to Vologeses, the king of Ptarthier, where
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  Speaker 1: they were not disregarded as fugitives, but had the same
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  Speaker 1: respect paid them as if they had retained their ancient prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: Three Now, when Antiochus was come to Tarsus in Cilicia,
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  Speaker 1: Petus ordered a centurion to go to him and send
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  Speaker 1: him in bonds to Rome. However, Vespasian could not endure
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  Speaker 1: to have a king brought to him in that manner,
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  Speaker 1: but thought it fit rather to have a regard to
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  Speaker 1: the ancient friendship that had been between them, than to
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  Speaker 1: preserve an inexorable anger upon pretense of this war. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: he gave orders that they should take off his bonds
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  Speaker 1: while he was still upon the road, and that he
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  Speaker 1: should not come to Rome, but should now go and
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  Speaker 1: live at Licidaman. He also gave him large revenues, that
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  Speaker 1: he might not only live in plenty, but like a king.
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  Speaker 1: Also when Epiphanes, who before was in great fear. For
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  Speaker 1: his father was informed of this, their minds were freed
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  Speaker 1: from that great and almost incurable concern they had been under.
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  Speaker 1: He also hoped that Caesar would be reconciled to them
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  Speaker 1: upon the intercession of Bologeses, for although he lived in Plenty,
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  Speaker 1: he knew not how to bear living out of the
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  Speaker 1: Roman Empire. So Caesar gave him leave after an obliging manner,
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  Speaker 1: and he came to Rome. And as his father came
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  Speaker 1: quickly to him from Lacedemon, he had all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: respect paid him there, and there he remained. Four Now
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  Speaker 1: there was a nation of the Allans, which we have
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  Speaker 1: formerly mentioned somewhere as being Scythians, and inhabiting at the
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  Speaker 1: Lake Meotis. This nation, about this time, laid a design
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  Speaker 1: of falling upon Media and the parts beyond it, in
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  Speaker 1: order to plunder them. With much intention. They treated with
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  Speaker 1: the king of Hyrcani, for he was master of that
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  Speaker 1: passage which King Alexander the Great shut up with iron gates.
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  Speaker 1: This king gave them leave to come through them. So
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  Speaker 1: they came in great multitudes and fell upon the Meads unexpectedly,
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  Speaker 1: and plundered their country, which they found full of people,
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  Speaker 1: and replenished with abundance of cattle, while nobody durst make
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  Speaker 1: any resistance against them. For Peoris, the king of the country,
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  Speaker 1: had fled away for fear into places where they could
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  Speaker 1: not easily come at him, and had yielded up everything
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  Speaker 1: he had to them, and had only saved his wife
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  Speaker 1: and as concubines from them, and that with difficulty, also
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  Speaker 1: after they had been made captives by giving them a
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  Speaker 1: hundred talents for their ransom. These Alans therefore plundered the
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  Speaker 1: country without opposition and with great ease, and proceeded as
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  Speaker 1: far as Armenia, laying all waste before them. Now Tyridates
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  Speaker 1: was king of that country, who met them and fought them,
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  Speaker 1: but had liked to have been taken alive in the battle,
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  Speaker 1: for a certain man threw a net over him from
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  Speaker 1: a great distance, and had soon drawn him to him,
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  Speaker 1: unless he had immediately cut the cord with his sword
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  Speaker 1: and ran away and prevented it. So the Allens, being
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  Speaker 1: still more provoked by this sight, laid waste the country
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  Speaker 1: and drove a great multitude of the men, and a
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  Speaker 1: great quantity of the other prey. They had gotten out
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  Speaker 1: of both kingdoms along with them, and then retreated back
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  Speaker 1: to their own country. End of Book seven, Chapters six
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  Speaker 1: and seven.