ho first mounts
the wall, I should blush for shame if I did not make him to be envied of
others, by those rewards I would bestow upon him. If such a one escape
with his life, he shall have the command of others that are now but his
equals; although it be true also that the greatest rewards will accrue
to such as die in the attempt." [3]

6. Upon this speech of Titus, the rest of the multitude were afrighted
at so great a danger. But there was one, whose name was Sabinus, a
soldier that served among the cohorts, and a Syrian by birth, who
appeared to be of very great fortitude, both in the actions he had done,
and the courage of his soul he had shown; although any body would
have thought, before he came to his work, that he was of such a weak
constitution of body, that he was not fit to be a soldier; for his color
was black, his flesh was lean and thin, and lay close together; but
there was a certain heroic soul that dwelt in this small body, which
body was indeed much too narrow for that peculiar courage which was in
him. Accordingly he was the first that rose up, when he thus spake: "I
readily surrender up myself to thee, O Caesar; I first ascend the
wall, and I heartily wish that my fortune may follow my courage and
my resolution And if some ill fortune grudge me the success of my
undertaking, take notice that my ill success will not be unexpected, but
that I choose death voluntarily for thy sake." When he had said this,
and had spread out his shield over his head with his left hand, and
hill, with his right hand, drawn his sword, he marched up to the wall,
just about the sixth hour of the day. There followed him eleven others,
and no more, that resolved to imitate his bravery; but still this was
the principal person of them all, and went first, as excited by a divine
fury. Now those that guarded the wall shot at them from thence, and cast
innumerable darts upon them from every side; they also rolled very large
stones upon them, which overthrew some of those eleven that were with
him. But as for Sabinus himself, he met the darts that were cast at him
and though he was overwhelmed with them, yet did he not leave off the
violence of his attack before he had gotten up on the top of the wall,
and had put the enemy to flight. For as the Jews were astonished at
his great strength, and the bravery of his soul, and as, withal, they
imagined more of them had got upon the wall than really had, they were
put to flight. And now o