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In the mean time, the people of Damascus, when they were informed
of the destruction of the Romans, set about the slaughter of those Jews
that were among them; and as they had them already cooped up together in
the place of public exercises, which they had done out of the suspicion
they had of them, they thought they should meet with no difficulty in the
attempt; yet did they distrust their own wives, which were almost all of
them addicted to the Jewish religion; on which account it was that their
greatest concern was, how they might conceal these things from them; so
they came upon the Jews, and cut their throats, as being in a narrow place,
in number ten thousand, and all of them unarmed, and this in one hour's
time, without any body to disturb them.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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