ch the tyrants in their mad conduct had relinquished; for when
he saw their solid altitude, and the largeness of their several stones,
and the exactness of their joints, as also how great was their breadth,
and how extensive their length, he expressed himself after the manner
following: "We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war,
and it was no other than God who ejected the Jews out of these
fortifications; for what could the hands of men or any machines do
towards overthrowing these towers?" At which time he had many such
discourses to his friends; he also let such go free as had been bound by
the tyrants, and were left in the prisons. To conclude, when he entirely
demolished the rest of the city, and overthrew its walls, he left
these towers as a monument of his good fortune, which had proved his
auxiliaries, and enabled him to take what could not otherwise have been
taken by him.

2. And now, since his soldiers were already quite tired with killing
men, and yet there appeared to be a vast multitude still remaining
alive, Caesar gave orders that they should kill none but those that were
in arms, and opposed them, but should take the rest alive. But, together
with those whom they had orders to slay, they slew the aged and the
infirm; but for those that were in their flourishing age, and who might
be useful to them, they drove them together into the temple, and shut
them up within the walls of the court of the women; over which Caesar
set one of his freed-men, as also Fronto, one of his own friends; which
last was to determine every one's fate, according to his merits. So
this Fronto slew all those that had been seditious and robbers, who were
impeached one by another; but of the young men he chose out the tallest
and most beautiful, and reserved them for the triumph; and as for the
rest of the multitude that were above seventeen years old, he put them
into bonds, and sent them to the Egyptian mines [31] Titus also sent a
great number into the provinces, as a present to them, that they might
be destroyed upon their theatres, by the sword and by the wild beasts;
but those that were under seventeen years of age were sold for slaves.
Now during the days wherein Fronto was distinguishing these men, there
perished, for want of food, eleven thousand; some of whom did not taste
any food, through the hatred their guards bore to them; and others would
not take in any when it was given them. The multitude also was so