enough to fight with
the Romans any longer upon the square, as being surrounded on all sides,
and a kind of prisoners already, yet were they so accustomed to kill
people, that they could not restrain their right hands from acting
accordingly. So they dispersed themselves before the city, and laid
themselves in ambush among its ruins, to catch those that attempted to
desert to the Romans; accordingly many such deserters were caught by
them, and were all slain; for these were too weak, by reason of their
want of food, to fly away from them; so their dead bodies were thrown to
the dogs. Now every other sort of death was thought more tolerable than
the famine, insomuch that, though the Jews despaired now of mercy, yet
would they fly to the Romans, and would themselves, even of their own
accord, fall among the murderous rebels also. Nor was there any place
in the city that had no dead bodies in it, but what was entirely covered
with those that were killed either by the famine or the rebellion; and
all was full of the dead bodies of such as had perished, either by that
sedition or by that famine.

3. So now the last hope which supported the tyrants, and that crew of
robbers who were with them, was in the caves and caverns under ground;
whither, if they could once fly, they did not expect to be searched for;
but endeavored, that after the whole city should be destroyed, and the
Romans gone away, they might come out again, and escape from them. This
was no better than a dream of theirs; for they were not able to lie
hid either from God or from the Romans. However, they depended on these
under-ground subterfuges, and set more places on fire than did the
Romans themselves; and those that fled out of their houses thus set
on fire into the ditches, they killed without mercy, and pillaged them
also; and if they discovered food belonging to any one, they seized upon
it and swallowed it down, together with their blood also; nay, they were
now come to fight one with another about their plunder; and I cannot
but think that, had not their destruction prevented it, their barbarity
would have made them taste of even the dead bodies themselves.

CHAPTER 8.

How Caesar Raised Banks Round About The Upper City [Mount
Zion] And When They Were Completed, Gave Orders That The
Machines Should Be Brought. He Then Possessed Himself Of The
Whole City.

1. Now when Caesar perceived that the upper city was so steep that
it