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[300]
Διαλανθάνοντες δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ παραγίνονται πρὸς τὸ
τεῖχος καὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς πρίοσι χρώμενοι τὴν κατὰ τοὺς Ἰδουμαίους
ἀνοίγουσι πύλην.
[301]
τοῖς δὲ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐμπίπτει ταραχὴ τοὺς
περὶ τὸν Ἄνανον ἐπιχειρεῖν οἰηθεῖσι, καὶ πᾶς ἐπὶ τοῦ ξίφους ἔσχε
τὴν δεξιὰν ὡς ἀμυνούμενος: ταχέως δὲ γνωρίζοντες τοὺς ἥκοντας
εἰσῄεσαν.
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εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐτράποντο περὶ τὴν πόλιν, οὐδὲν ἐκώλυσεν
ἂν ἀπολωλέναι τὸν δῆμον αὔτανδρον: οὕτως εἶχον ὀργῆς: νῦν δὲ
πρώτους τοὺς ζηλωτὰς σπεύδοντες τῆς φρουρᾶς ἐξελέσθαι, δεομένων
πολλὰ καὶ τῶν εἰσδεξαμένων μὴ περιιδεῖν δι᾽ οὓς ἦλθον ἐν μέσοις
τοῖς δεινοῖς μηδ᾽ αὐτοῖς χαλεπώτερον ἐπισεῖσαι τὸν κίνδυνον:
[303]
τῶν
μὲν γὰρ φρουρῶν ἁλόντων ῥᾴδιον αὐτοῖς εἶναι χωρεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν
πόλιν, εἰ δ᾽ ἅπαξ ταύτην προκινήσειαν, οὐκ ἂν ἔτι ἐκείνων κρατῆσαι:
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πρὸς γὰρ τὴν αἴσθησιν συντάξεσθαι αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰς ἀνόδους
ἀποφράξειν:
Flavius Josephus. Flavii Iosephi opera. B. Niese. Berlin. Weidmann. 1895.
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