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Now the Jews, after they had beaten Cestius, were so much elevated
with their unexpected success, that they could not govern their zeal, but,
like people blown up into a flame by their good fortune, carried the war
to remoter places. Accordingly, they presently got together a great multitude
of all their most hardy soldiers, and marched away for Ascalon. This is
an ancient city that is distant from Jerusalem five hundred and twenty
furlongs, and was always an enemy to the Jews; on which account they determined
to make their first effort against it, and to make their approaches to
it as near as possible. This excursion was led on by three men, who were
the chief of them all, both for strength and sagacity; Niger, called the
Persite, Silas of Babylon, and besides them John the Essene. Now Ascalon
was strongly walled about, but had almost no assistance to be relied on
[near them], for the garrison consisted of one cohort of footmen, and one
troop of horsemen, whose captain was Antonius.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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