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But on the next day, which was the fifteenth of the month Lous, [Ab,]
they made an assault upon Antonia, and besieged the garrison which was
in it two days, and then took the garrison, and slew them, and set the
citadel on fire; after which they marched to the palace, whither the king's
soldiers were fled, and parted themselves into four bodies, and made an
attack upon the walls. As for those that were within it, no one had the
courage to sally out, because those that assaulted them were so numerous;
but they distributed themselves into the breast-works and turrets, and
shot at the besiegers, whereby many of the robbers fell under the walls;
nor did they cease to fight one with another either by night or by day,
while the seditious supposed that those within would grow weary for want
of food, and those without supposed the others would do the like by the
tediousness of the siege.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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