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But of the people of Gamala, those that were of the bolder sort fled
away and hid themselves, while the more infirm perished by famine; but
the men of war sustained the siege till the two and twentieth day of the
month Hyperberetmus, [Tisri,] when three soldiers of the fifteenth legion,
about the morning watch, got under a high tower that was near them, and
undermined it, without making any noise; nor when they either came to it,
which was in the night time, nor when they were under it, did those that
guarded it perceive them. These soldiers then upon their coming avoided
making a noise, and when they had rolled away five of its strongest stones,
they went away hastily; whereupon the tower fell down on a sudden, with
a very great noise, and its guard fell headlong with it; so that those
that kept guard at other places were under such disturbance, that they
ran away; the Romans also slew many of those that ventured to oppose them,
among whom was Joseph, who was slain by a dart, as he was running away
over that part of the wall that was broken down: but as those that were
in the city were greatly aftrighted at the noise, they ran hither and thither,
and a great consternation fell upon them, as though all the enemy had fallen
in at once upon them. Then it was that Chares, who was ill, and under the
physician's hands, gave up the ghost, the fear he was in greatly contributing
to make his distemper fatal to him. But the Romans so well remembered their
former ill success, that they did not enter the city till the three and
twentieth day of the forementioned month.
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