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Igitur castris, uti diximus, ante moenia Hierosolymorum positis instructas legiones ostentavit: Iudaei sub ipsos
muros struxere aciem, rebus secundis longius ausuri et, si
pellerentur, parato perfugio. missus in eos eques cum expe-
ditis cohortibus ambigue certavit; mox cessere hostes et
sequentibus diebus crebra pro portis proelia serebant, donec
adsiduis damnis intra moenia pellerentur. Romani ad obpugnandum versi; neque enim dignum videbatur famem hostium
opperiri, poscebantque pericula, pars virtute, multi ferocia
et cupidine praemiorum. ipsi Tito Roma et opes voluptatesque ante oculos; ac ni statim Hierosolyma conciderent, morari videbantur. sed urbem arduam situ opera molesque firmaverant, quis vel plana satis munirentur. nam duos collis
in immensum editos claudebant muri per artem obliqui aut introrsus sinuati, ut latera obpugnantium ad ictus patescerent.
extrema rupis abrupta, et turres, ubi mons iuvisset, in sexagenos pedes, inter devexa in centenos vicenosque attollebantur, mira specie ac procul intuentibus pares. alia intus
moenia regiae circumiecta, conspicuoque fastigio turris
Antonia, in honorem M. Antonii ab Herode appellata.
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