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Since therefore the Romans were sorely afflicted by both these circumstances,
they set fire to the cloisters, which were works to be admired, both on
account of their magnitude and costliness. Whereupon those that were above
them were presently encompassed with the flame, and many of them perished
therein; as many of them also were destroyed by the enemy, who came suddenly
upon them; some of them also threw themselves down from the walls backward,
and some there were who, from the desperate condition they were in, prevented
the fire, by killing themselves with their own swords; but so many of them
as crept out from the walls, and came upon the Romans, were easily mastere
by them, by reason of the astonishment they were under; until at last some
of the Jews being destroyed, and others dispersed by the terror they were
in, the soldiers fell upon the treasure of God, which w now deserted, and
plundered about four hundred talents, Of which sum Sabinus got together
all that was not carried away by the soldiers.
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