ne cannot but complain here of fortune, as still
envious at virtue, and always hindering the performance of glorious
achievements: this was the case of the man before us, when he had just
obtained his purpose; for he then stumbled at a certain large stone, and
fell down upon it headlong, with a very great noise. Upon which the Jews
turned back, and when they saw him to be alone, and fallen down also,
they threw darts at him from every side. However, he got upon his knee,
and covered himself with his shield, and at the first defended himself
against them, and wounded many of those that came near him; but he was
soon forced to relax his right hand, by the multitude of the wounds that
had been given him, till at length he was quite covered over with darts
before he gave up the ghost. He was one who deserved a better fate, by
reason of his bravery; but, as might be expected, he fell under so vast
an attempt. As for the rest of his partners, the Jews dashed three of
them to pieces with stones, and slew them as they were gotten up to the
top of the wall; the other eight being wounded, were pulled down, and
carried back to the camp. These things were done upon the third day of
the month Panemus [Tamuz].

7. Now two days afterward twelve of those men that were on the
forefront, and kept watch upon the banks, got together, and called to
them the standard-bearer of the fifth legion, and two others of a troop
of horsemen, and one trumpeter; these went without noise, about the
ninth hour of the night, through the ruins, to the tower of Antonia; and
when they had cut the throats of the first guards of the place, as they
were asleep, they got possession of the wall, and ordered the trumpeter
to sound his trumpet. Upon which the rest of the guard got up on the
sudden, and ran away, before any body could see how many they were that
were gotten up; for, partly from the fear they were in, and partly from
the sound of the trumpet which they heard, they imagined a great number
of the enemy were gotten up. But as soon as Caesar heard the signal,
he ordered the army to put on their armor immediately, and came thither
with his commanders, and first of all ascended, as did the chosen men
that were with him. And as the Jews were flying away to the temple, they
fell into that mine which John had dug under the Roman banks. Then
did the seditious of both the bodies of the Jewish army, as well that
belonging to John as that belonging to Simon, drive