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However, in this ill success of the Romans, their courage did not
fail them, nor did the Jews want prudence to oppose them; for the Romans,
although they saw their own men thrown down, and in a miserable condition,
yet were they vehemently bent against those that poured the oil upon them;
while every one reproached the man before him as a coward, and one that
hindered him from exerting himself; and while the Jews made use of another
stratagem to prevent their ascent, and poured boiling fenugreek upon the
boards, in order to make them slip and fall down; by which means neither
could those that were coming up, nor those that were going down, stand
on their feet; but some of them fell backward upon the machines on which
they ascended, and were trodden upon; many of them fell down upon the bank
they had raised, and when they were fallen upon it were slain by the Jews;
for when the Romans could not keep their feet, the Jews being freed from
fighting hand to hand, had leisure to throw their darts at them. So the
general called off those soldiers in the evening that had suffered so sorely,
of whom the number of the slain was not a few, while that of the wounded
was still greater; but of the people of Jotapata no more than six men were
killed, although more than three hundred were carried off wounded. This
fight happened on the twentieth day of the month Desius [Sivan].
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