will not imitate your
madness. If you throw down your arms, and deliver up your bodies to me,
I grant you your lives; and I will act like a mild master of a family;
what cannot be healed shall be punished, and the rest I will preserve
for my own use."

3. To that offer of Titus they made this reply: That they could not
accept of it, because they had sworn never to do so; but they desired
they might have leave to go through the wall that had been made about
them, with their wives and children; for that they would go into the
desert, and leave the city to him. At this Titus had great indignation,
that when they were in the case of men already taken captives, they
should pretend to make their own terms with him, as if they had been
conquerors. So he ordered this proclamation to be made to them, That
they should no more come out to him as deserters, nor hope for any
further security; for that he would henceforth spare nobody, but fight
them with his whole army; and that they must save themselves as well as
they could; for that he would from henceforth treat them according to
the laws of war. So he gave orders to the soldiers both to burn and to
plunder the city; who did nothing indeed that day; but on the next
day they set fire to the repository of the archives, to Acra, to the
council-house, and to the place called Ophlas; at which time the fire
proceeded as far as the palace of queen Helena, which was in the middle
of Acra; the lanes also were burnt down, as were also those houses that
were full of the dead bodies of such as were destroyed by famine.

4. On the same day it was that the sons and brethren of Izates the
king, together with many others of the eminent men of the populace,
got together there, and besought Caesar to give them his right hand for
their security; upon which, though he was very angry at all that were
now remaining, yet did he not lay aside his old moderation, but received
these men. At that time, indeed, he kept them all in custody, but still
bound the king's sons and kinsmen, and led them with him to Rome, in
order to make them hostages for their country's fidelity to the Romans.

CHAPTER 7.

What Afterward Befell The Seditious When They Had Done A
Great Deal Of Mischief, And Suffered Many Misfortunes; As
Also How Caesar Became Master Of The Upper City.

1. And now the seditious rushed into the royal palace, into which many
had put their effects, because it was so strong, a