gs, and is in
breadth twenty, And this is the nature of that place.

9. But now, when the vessels were gotten ready, Vespasian put upon
ship-board as many of his forces as he thought sufficient to be too hard
for those that were upon the lake, and set sail after them. Now these
which were driven into the lake could neither fly to the land, where
all was in their enemies' hand, and in war against them; nor could they
fight upon the level by sea, for their ships were small and fitted only
for piracy; they were too weak to fight with Vespasian's vessels, and
the mariners that were in them were so few, that they were afraid to
come near the Romans, who attacked them in great numbers. However, as
they sailed round about the vessels, and sometimes as they came near
them, they threw stones at the Romans when they were a good way off,
or came closer and fought them; yet did they receive the greatest harm
themselves in both cases. As for the stones they threw at the Romans,
they only made a sound one after another, for they threw them against
such as were in their armor, while the Roman darts could reach the Jews
themselves; and when they ventured to come near the Romans, they became
sufferers themselves before they could do any harm to the ether,
and were drowned, they and their ships together. As for those that
endeavored to come to an actual fight, the Romans ran many of them
through with their long poles. Sometimes the Romans leaped into their
ships, with swords in their hands, and slew them; but when some of them
met the vessels, the Romans caught them by the middle, and destroyed at
once their ships and themselves who were taken in them. And for such as
were drowning in the sea, if they lifted their heads up above the water,
they were either killed by darts, or caught by the vessels; but if,
in the desperate case they were in, they attempted to swim to their
enemies, the Romans cut off either their heads or their hands; and
indeed they were destroyed after various manners every where, till the
rest being put to flight, were forced to get upon the land, while the
vessels encompassed them about [on the sea]: but as many of these were
repulsed when they were getting ashore, they were killed by the darts
upon the lake; and the Romans leaped out of their vessels, and destroyed
a great many more upon the land: one might then see the lake all bloody,
and full of dead bodies, for not one of them escaped. And a terrible
stink, and