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 siege of Jerusalem, he then marched to Samaria and from thence to Atelphia, thirty furlongs from Jerusalem, where he pitched his camp, and the next day he brought the whole army to Jerusalem, a little before the feast of unleavened bread, which was April the 14th. so that an infinit number of the people, that come to celebrate, were all shut up in the city, which raised a famine; oxens dung was sold at a dear rate, so was old leather, and some women for want, boiled their own children and did eat them.

Now Titus approached the walls of the city and pitched his camp upon the river Peleponina, raised a mount, and with a battering ram broke into the city May 7th., and afterwards he raised four other mounts and made himself master of the second wall, and built twelve castles thereon, so that none could pass in or out, whereby the famine and pestilence raged within and the sword without the city, so that multitudes perished; for from April the 13, to July following, there were buried by the common charge of the city, six hundred thousand carcases, and multitudes thrown into empty houses, and over the walls which filled the houses with dead bodies. Titus intended to save the temple from fire, when some of the city was in flames by setting a guard upon it, but the seditious who raised the fire slew every man of the guard, which Titus hearing brought his whole army thitnerthither [sic]. At that time a soldier of the seditious took a flaming fire brand, and cast it through the golden window into the temple, and others set fire to the doors and after the gold grew hot, the temple began to burn, and immediately the whole fabric was in a flame, and the holy of holies was laid open to the view of all there present.

This happened the second year of the reign of Vespasian: and the same month that it was burnt by Nebuchadnezzar, Titus drew his sword to save the