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But now, as soon as that legion that had been at Emmaus was joined
to Caesar at night, he removed thence, when it was day, and came to a place
called Seopus; from whence the city began already to be seen, and a plain
view might be taken of the great temple. Accordingly, this place, on the
north quarter of the city, and joining thereto, was a plain, and very properly
named Scopus, [the prospect,] and was no more than seven furlongs distant
from it. And here it was that Titus ordered a camp to be fortified for
two legions that were to be together; but ordered another camp to be fortified,
at three furlongs farther distance behind them, for the fifth legion; for
he thought that, by marching in the night, they might be tired, and might
deserve to be covered from the enemy, and with less fear might fortify
themselves; and as these were now beginning to build, the tenth legion,
who came through Jericho, was already come to the place, where a certain
party of armed men had formerly lain, to guard that pass into the city,
and had been taken before by Vespasian. These legions had orders to encamp
at the distance of six furlongs from Jerusalem, at the mount called the
Mount of Olives 1
which lies over against the city on the east side, and is parted from it
by a deep valley, interposed between them, which is named Cedron.
1 This situation of the Mount of Olives, on the east of Jerusalem, at about the distance of five or six furlongs, with the valley of Cedron interposed between that mountain and the city, are things well known both in the Old and New Testament, in Josephus elsewhere, and in all the descriptions of Palestine.
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