the fire who escaped by his subtlety; for
when he had with a loud voice called to him Lucius, one of his fellow
soldiers that lay with him in the same tent, and said to him, "I do
leave thee heir of all I have, if thou wilt come and receive me." Upon
this he came running to receive him readily; Artorius then threw himself
down upon him, and saved his own life, while he that received him was
dashed so vehemently against the stone pavement by the other's weight,
that he died immediately. This melancholy accident made the Romans
sad for a while, but still it made them more upon their guard for the
future, and was of advantage to them against the delusions of the Jews,
by which they were greatly damaged through their unacquaintedness with
the places, and with the nature of the inhabitants. Now this cloister
was burnt down as far as John's tower, which he built in the war he made
against Simon over the gates that led to the Xystus. The Jews also cut
off the rest of that cloister from the temple, after they had destroyed
those that got up to it. But the next day the Romans burnt down the
northern cloister entirely, as far as the east cloister, whose common
angle joined to the valley that was called Cedron, and was built over
it; on which account the depth was frightful. And this was the state of
the temple at that time.

3. Now of those that perished by famine in the city, the number was
prodigious, and the miseries they underwent were unspeakable; for if so
much as the shadow of any kind of food did any where appear, a war was
commenced presently, and the dearest friends fell a fighting one with
another about it, snatching from each other the most miserable supports
of life. Nor would men believe that those who were dying had no food,
but the robbers would search them when they were expiring, lest any one
should have concealed food in their bosoms, and counterfeited dying;
nay, these robbers gaped for want, and ran about stumbling and
staggering along like mad dogs, and reeling against the doors of the
houses like drunken men; they would also, in the great distress they
were in, rush into the very same houses two or three times in one and
the same day. Moreover, their hunger was so intolerable, that it obliged
them to chew every thing, while they gathered such things as the most
sordid animals would not touch, and endured to eat them; nor did they
at length abstain from girdles and shoes; and the very leather which
belonged