y; but they seemed very angry at it, and brandished their naked
swords upon the breast-works, and struck themselves upon their breast,
and fell down as if they had been slain. Hereupon Titus, and those with
him, were amazed at the courage of the men; and as they were not able
to see exactly what was done, they admired at their great fortitude,
and pitied their calamity. During this interval, a certain person shot
a dart at Castor, and wounded him in his nose; whereupon he presently
pulled out the dart, and showed it to Titus, and complained that this
was unfair treatment; so Caesar reproved him that shot the dart, and
sent Josephus, who then stood by him, to give his right hand to Castor.
But Josephus said that he would not go to him, because these pretended
petitioners meant nothing that was good; he also restrained those
friends of his who were zealous to go to him. But still there was one
Eneas, a deserter, who said he would go to him. Castor also called to
them, that somebody should come and receive the money which he had with
him; this made Eneas the more earnestly to run to him with his bosom
open. Then did Castor take up a great stone, and threw it at him, which
missed him, because he guarded himself against it; but still it wounded
another soldier that was coming to him. When Caesar understood that
this was a delusion, he perceived that mercy in war is a pernicious
thing, because such cunning tricks have less place under the exercise
of greater severity. So he caused the engine to work more strongly than
before, on account of his anger at the deceit put upon him. But Castor
and his companions set the tower on fire when it began to give way, and
leaped through the flame into a hidden vault that was under it, which
made the Romans further suppose that they were men of great courage, as
having cast themselves into the fire.

CHAPTER 8.

How The Romans Took The Second Wall Twice, And Got All Ready
For Taking The Third Wall.

1. Now Caesar took this wall there on the fifth day after he had taken
the first; and when the Jews had fled from him, he entered into it with
a thousand armed men, and those of his choice troops, and this at a
place where were the merchants of wool, the braziers, and the market
for cloth, and where the narrow streets led obliquely to the wall.
Wherefore, if Titus had either demolished a larger part of the wall
immediately, or had come in, and, according to the law of war, had la