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156256 [sic] as ours. So farr are you from the truth; that (I speak seriously) these wars of ours, are onely pastime and sport, if compar'd with those of the Antients. I cannot easily find an entrance or an exit, if I should once lanch forth into this depth of examples. Nevertheless, will you that we travel through the parts of the World? Let us set forward then, and begin with Judea, that is to say, with the holy Land and Nation. I omit what they suffered in Ægypt, and what after their departure from thence; for those are recorded, and easily to be met with in the Scriptures. I come to their later sufferings, and such as did accompany their funerals; which I will place severally as in an Index. They suffered what by civil and what by forreign warres, all that followes. viz.

Slaine at Jerusalem by the command of Florus six hundred and thirty.

At Cæsaræa by the inhabitants out Rh