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However, such of the watch as at the first perceived they were taken,
and ran away as fast as they could, went up into one of the towers on the
north side of the city, and for a while defended themselves there; but
as they were encompassed with a multitude of enemies, they tried to use
their right hands when it was too late, and at length they cheerfully offered
their necks to be cut off by those that stood over them. And the Romans
might have boasted that the conclusion of that siege was without blood
[on their side] if there had not been a centurion, Antonius, who was slain
at the taking of the city. His death was occasioned by the following treachery;
for there was one of those that were fled into the caverns, which were
a great number, who desired that this Antonius would reach him his right
hand for his security, and would assure him that he would preserve him,
and give him his assistance in getting up out of the cavern; accordingly,
he incautiously reached him his right hand, when the other man prevented
him, and stabbed him under his loins with a spear, and killed him immediately.
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