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against another, and dashed some of them against the rocks, and carried
many of them by force, while they strove against the opposite
waves, into the main sea; for the shore was so rocky, and had so many
of the enemy upon it, that they were afraid to come to land; nay, the
waves rose so very high, that they drowned them; nor was there any
place whither they could fly, nor any way to save themselves; while
they were thrust out of the sea, by the violence of the wind, if they
staid where they were, and out of the city by the violence of the
Remans; and much lamentation there was when the ships were dashed
against one another, and a terrible noise when they were broken to
pieces; and some of the multitude that were in them were covered with
the waves, and so perished, and a great many were embarrassed with
shipwrecks; but some of them thought, that to die by their own swords
was lighter than by the sea, and so they killed themselves before they
were drowned; although the greatest part of them were carried by the
waves, and dashed to pieces against the abrupt parts of the rocks, insomuch
that the sea was bloody a long way, and the maritime parts
were full of dead bodies; for the Remans came upon those that were
carried to the shore, and destroyed them; and the number of the
bodies that were thus thrown out of the sea was four thousand and
two hundred. The Remans rdso took the city without opposition, and
utterly destroyed it.
4. And thus was Joppa taken twice by the Remans in a little time;
but Vespasian, in order to prevent these pirates from coming thither
any more, erected a camp there, where the citadal of Joppa had been,
and left a body of horse, in it, with a few footmen; that these last
might stay there and guard the camp, and the horsemen might spoil
the country that lay round it, and might destroy the neighboring
villages and smaller cities. So these troops overran the country, as they
were ordered to do, and every day cut to pieces and laid desolate the
whole region.
“Slain on Every Side”
(iii:x:3)
3 . . . . Vespasian had also sent both Antonius and Silo, with two
thousand archers, and had given it them in charge to seize upon the
mountain that was over-against the city, ] ] and repel those that were
upon the wall; which archers did as they were commanded, and
prevented those that attempted to assist them that way; and now Titus 12
made his own horse march first against the enemy, as did the others
with a great noise after him, and extended themselves upon the plain
as wide as the enemy who confronted them; by which means they appeared
much more numerous than they really were. Now the Jews,