em were able. So Titus
pressed upon the hindmost, and slew them; and of the rest, some he fell
upon as they stood on heaps, and some he prevented, and met them in the
mouth, and run them through; many also he leaped upon as they fell one
upon another, and trod them down, and cut off all the retreat they had
to the wall, and turned them back into the plain, till at last they
forced a passage by their multitude, and got away, and ran into the
city.

4. But now there fell out a terrible sedition among them within the
city; for the inhabitants themselves, who had possessions there, and
to whom the city belonged, were not disposed to fight from the very
beginning; and now the less so, because they had been beaten; but the
foreigners, which were very numerous, would force them to fight so much
the more, insomuch that there was a clamor and a tumult among them, as
all mutually angry one at another. And when Titus heard this tumult, for
he was not far from the wall, he cried out, "Fellow soldiers, now is the
time; and why do we make any delay, when God is giving up the Jews to
us? Take the victory which is given you: do not you hear what a noise
they make? Those that have escaped our hands are ill an uproar against
one another. We have the city if we make haste; but besides haste, we
must undergo some labor, and use some courage; for no great thing uses
to be accomplished without danger: accordingly, we must not only prevent
their uniting again, which necessity will soon compel them to do, but we
must also prevent the coming of our own men to our assistance, that, as
few as we are, we may conquer so great a multitude, and may ourselves
alone take the city:"

5. As soon as ever Titus had said this, he leaped upon his horse, and
rode apace down to the lake; by which lake he marched, and entered
into the city the first of them all, as did the others soon after him.
Hereupon those that were upon the walls were seized with a terror at the
boldness of the attempt, nor durst any one venture to fight with him,
or to hinder him; so they left guarding the city, and some of those that
were about Jesus fled over the country, while others of them ran down
to the lake, and met the enemy in the teeth, and some were slain as they
were getting up into the ships, but others of them as they attempted
to overtake those that were already gone aboard. There was also a great
slaughter made in the city, while those foreigners that had not fled
away