although great numbers were
slaughtered, the rest--by pure weight of numbers--broke through,
and reached the city.

A great dissension arose within the walls. The inhabitants of the
town--dismayed by the defeat inflicted, by a small number of
Romans, upon the multitude in the field--were unwilling to draw
upon themselves the terrible fate which had befallen the towns
which had resisted the Romans, and therefore clamored for instant
surrender. The strangers--great numbers of whom were mountaineers
from Peraea, Ammonitis, and the broken country of Mount Galaad and
the slopes of Hermon, who knew little of what had been passing in
Galilee--were for resistance, and a fray arose in the town.

The noise of the tumult reached Titus; who called upon his men to
seize the moment, while the enemy were engaged in civil discord, to
attack. Then, leading his men, he dashed on horseback into the
lake, passed round the end of the wall, and entered the city.

Consternation seized the besieged. The inhabitants attempted no
resistance, still hoping that their peaceful character would save
them from ill treatment; and many allowed themselves to be
slaughtered, unresistingly. Jesus and his followers, however,
fought gallantly; striving, but in vain, to make their way down to
the ships in the port. Jesus himself, and many of his men, were
killed.

Titus opened the gates, and sent word to his father that the city
was captured; and the Roman army at once entered. Vespasian placed
a number of his troops in the large vessels in the port, and sent
them off to attack those who had first fled to the boats. These
were, for the most part, fishermen from the various towns on the
lake. The cavalry were sent all round the lake, to cut off and slay
those who sought to gain the land.

The battle--or rather the slaughter--went on for some time. The
fishermen, in their light boats, could do nothing against the
soldiers in the large vessels. These slew them with arrows or
javelins, from a distance; or ran them down, and killed them as
they struggled in the water. Many of the boats were run ashore; but
the occupants were slain, there, by the soldiers on the lookout for
them. Altogether, six thousand perished in the slaughter.

In the meantime, Vespasian had set up a tribunal in Tarichea. The
inhabitants of the town were separated from the strangers.
Vespasian himself was, as Josephus said, unwilling to shed more
blood--as he had promised, when he had