This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
View text chunked by:
Table of Contents:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[402]
Οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι μάχην ἔτι προσδοκῶντες, ὑπὸ τὴν ἕω διασκευασάμενοι
καὶ τὰς ἀπὸ τῶν χωμάτων ἐφόδους ταῖς ἐπιβάθραις
γεφυρώσαντες προσβολὴν ἐποιοῦντο.
[403]
βλέποντες δ᾽ οὐδένα τῶν πολεμίων,
ἀλλὰ δεινὴν πανταχόθεν ἐρημίαν καὶ πῦρ ἔνδον καὶ σιωπήν,
ἀπόρως εἶχον τὸ γεγονὸς συμβαλεῖν, καὶ τέλος ὡς εἰς ἄφεσιν βολῆς
ἠλάλαξαν, εἴ τινα τῶν ἔνδον προκαλέσαιντο.
[404]
τῆς δὲ βοῆς αἴσθησις
γίνεται τοῖς γυναίοις, κἀκ τῶν ὑπονόμων ἀναδῦσαι τὸ πραχθὲν ὡς
εἶχε πρὸς τοὺς Ῥωμαίους ἐμήνυον, πάντα τῆς ἑτέρας ὡς ἐλέχθη τε
καὶ τίνα τρόπον ἐπράχθη σαφῶς ἐκδιηγουμένης.
[405]
οὐ μὴν ῥᾳδίως
αὐτῇ προσεῖχον τῷ μεγέθει τοῦ τολμήματος ἀπιστοῦντες, ἐπεχείρουν
τε τὸ πῦρ σβεννύναι καὶ ταχέως ὁδὸν δι᾽ αὐτοῦ τεμόντες τῶν βασιλείων
ἐντὸς ἐγένοντο.
[406]
καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν πεφονευμένων ἐπιτυχόντες
οὐχ ὡς ἐπὶ πολεμίοις ἥσθησαν, τὴν δὲ γενναιότητα τοῦ
βουλεύματος καὶ τὴν ἐν τοσούτοις ἄτρεπτον ἐπὶ τῶν ἔργων ἐθαύμασαν
τοῦ θανάτου καταφρόνησιν.
Flavius Josephus. Flavii Iosephi opera. B. Niese. Berlin. Weidmann. 1895.
Tufts University provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.