aw the lower rooms full of soldiers that were caught, and
lay all on a heap; so they threw stones down upon them as they lay
piled one upon another, and thereby killed them; nor was there a more
frightful spectacle in all the war than this, where beyond the walls an
immense multitude of dead men lay heaped one upon another. This action
it was which chiefly brake the spirits of the enemy, who expected now
what would come; for there appeared a mighty number of people that came
from places far distant, that were now about the village, but then ran
away; and had it not been for the depth of winter, which then restrained
them, the king's army had presently gone to Jerusalem, as being very
courageous at this good success, and the whole work had been done
immediately; for Antigonus was already looking about how he might fly
away and leave the city.

13. At this time the king gave order that the soldiers should go to
supper, for it was late at night, while he went into a chamber to use
the bath, for he was very weary; and here it was that he was in the
greatest danger, which yet, by God's providence, he escaped; for as he
was naked, and had but one servant that followed him, to be with him
while he was bathing in an inner room, certain of the enemy, who were in
their armor, and had fled thither, out of fear, were then in the place;
and as he was bathing, the first of them came out with his naked sword
drawn, and went out at the doors, and after him a second, and a third,
armed in like manner, and were under such a consternation, that they did
no hurt to the king, and thought themselves to have come off very well
ill suffering no harm themselves in their getting out of the house.
However, on the next day, he cut off the head of Pappus, for he was
already slain, and sent it to Pheroras, as a punishment of what their
brother had suffered by his means, for he was the man that slew him with
his own hand.

14. When the rigor of winter was over, Herod removed his army, and came
near to Jerusalem, and pitched his camp hard by the city. Now this was
the third year since he had been made king at Rome; and as he removed
his camp, and came near that part of the wall where it could be most
easily assaulted, he pitched that camp before the temple, intending to
make his attacks in the same manner as did Pompey. So he encompassed the
place with three bulwarks, and erected towers, and employed a great many
hands about the work, and cut down th