lease
their superior commanders, while Caesar himself took notice of and
rewarded the like contention in those commanders; for he went round
about the works many times every day, and took a view of what was done.
Titus began the wall from the camp of the Assyrians, where his own camp
was pitched, and drew it down to the lower parts of Cenopolis; thence
it went along the valley of Cedron, to the Mount of Olives; it then
bent towards the south, and encompassed the mountain as far as the rock
called Peristereon, and that other hill which lies next it, and is over
the valley which reaches to Siloam; whence it bended again to the west,
and went down to the valley of the Fountain, beyond which it went up
again at the monument of Ananus the high priest, and encompassing that
mountain where Pompey had formerly pitched his camp, it returned back
to the north side of the city, and was carried on as far as a certain
village called "The House of the Erebinthi;" after which it encompassed
Herod's monument, and there, on the east, was joined to Titus's own
camp, where it began. Now the length of this wall was forty furlongs,
one only abated. Now at this wall without were erected thirteen places
to keep garrison in, whose circumferences, put together, amounted to
ten furlongs; the whole was completed in three days; so that what would
naturally have required some months was done in so short an interval as
is incredible. When Titus had therefore encompassed the city with this
wall, and put garrisons into proper places, he went round the wall, at
the first watch of the night, and observed how the guard was kept; the
second watch he allotted to Alexander; the commanders of legions took
the third watch. They also cast lots among themselves who should be upon
the watch in the night time, and who should go all night long round the
spaces that were interposed between the garrisons.

3. So all hope of escaping was now cut off from the Jews, together with
their liberty of going out of the city. Then did the famine widen its
progress, and devoured the people by whole houses and families; the
upper rooms were full of women and children that were dying by famine,
and the lanes of the city were full of the dead bodies of the aged; the
children also and the young men wandered about the market-places like
shadows, all swelled with the famine, and fell down dead, wheresoever
their misery seized them. As for burying them, those that were sick
themselve