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Throughout those days of predatory warfare he made careful selection

of material for his army As yet, while famine had not reduced

Jerusaleth and

his ainst the Ro precious

numbers of them to the pit of the dead just over the wall

They eary days--days of increasing stor

cala

proportions Insurrections in these regions were so vigorously

suppressed that the victims chose to starve and live rather than to

revolt and perish Pestilence broke out aainst the other side of which the dead had been cast

by hundreds; and a general flight from the city was stopped in full

flood by the spectacle of some scores of unfortunates crucified by the

Roht of the walls

Si the interval, when

the sentries and the fighting- each other, the Romans

possessed the first fortification around Jerusale day Titus pitched his camp within the limits of

the Holy City, upon the site of Sennacherib's Assyrian bivouac

At sight of this signal advance, tumult broke out afresh in the city