Chapter 7

What afterward befell the seditious when they had done a great deal of mischief

and suffered many misfortunes, and also how Caesar became master of the upper city?

And now the seditious rushed into the royal palace, into which many had put their effects,

because it was so strong, and drove the Romans away from it. They also slew all the people that

had crowded into it, who were a number of about 8,400, and plundered them of what they had. They also

took two of the Romans alive. One was a horseman, the other a footman. They then cut the throat of

the footmen, and immediately had him drawn through the other a footman. They then cut the throat of the footman,

and immediately had him drawn through the whole city, as revenging themselves upon the whole

body of the Romans by this one instance. But the horseman said he had somewhat to suggest to them

in order to their preservation. Whereupon he was brought before Simon, but he having nothing

to say when he was there, he was delivered to Ardales, one of his commanders, to be punished, who bound his hands behind him,

and put a riband over his eyes, and then brought him out over against the Romans as

intending to cut off his head. But the man prevented the execution and ran way to the Romans,

and this while the Jewish executioner was drawing out his sword.

Now when he was gotten away from the enemy, Titus could not think of putting him to death,

but because he deemed him unworthy of being a Roman soldier any longer,

on account that he had been taken alive by the enemy,

he took away his arms and ejected him out of the legion where to he had belonged,

which, to one that had a sense

of shame, was a penalty severe than death itself. On the next day the Romans drove the robbers

out of the lower city and set all on fire as far as Salome. These soldiers were indeed glad to

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