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Nor indeed was he free from the Jews all along as he was in his flight;
for by that time he was gotten sixty furlongs out of the city, and was
upon the road, they fell upon him, and fought hand to hand with him, whom
he also put to flight, and overcame, not like one that was in distress
and in necessity, but like one that was excellently prepared for war, and
had what he wanted in great plenty. And in this very place where he overcame
the Jews it was that he some time afterward build a most excellent palace,
and a city round about it, and called it Herodium. And when he was come
to Idumea, at a place called Thressa, his brother Joseph met him, and he
then held a council to take advice about all his affairs, and what was
fit to be done in his circumstances, since he had a great multitude that
followed him, besides his mercenary soldiers, and the place Masada, whither
he proposed to fly, was too small to contain so great a multitude; so he
sent away the greater part of his company, being above nine thousand, and
bid them go, some one way, and some another, and so save themselves in
Idumea, and gave them what would buy them provisions in their journey.
But he took with him those that were the least encumbered, and were most
intimate with him, and came to the fortress, and placed there his wives
and his followers, being eight hundred in number, there being in the place
a sufficient quantity of corn and water, and other necessaries, and went
directly for Petra, in Arabia. But when it was day, the Parthians plundered
all Jerusalem, and the palace, and abstained from nothing but Hyrcanus's
money, which was three hundred talents. A great deal of Herod's money escaped,
and principally all that the man had been so provident as to send into
Idumea beforehand; nor indeed did what was in the city suffice the Parthians,
but they went out into the country, and plundered it, and demolished the
city Marissa.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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