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Now it is true that on this day the Jews were so weary, and under
such consternation, that they refrained from any attacks. But on the next
day they gathered their whole force together, and ran upon those that guarded
the outward court of the temple very boldly, through the east gate, and
this about the second hour of the day. These guards received that their
attack with great bravery, and by covering themselves with their shields
before, as if it were with a wall, they drew their squadron close together;
yet was it evident that they could not abide there very long, but would
be overborne by the multitude of those that sallied out upon them, and
by the heat of their passion. However, Caesar seeing, from the tower of
Antonia, that this squadron was likely to give way, he sent some chosen
horsemen to support them. Hereupon the Jews found themselves not able to
sustain their onset, and upon the slaughter of those in the forefront,
many of the rest were put to flight. But as the Romans were going off,
the Jews turned upon them, and fought them; and as those Romans came back
upon them, they retreated again, until about the fifth hour of the day
they were overborne, and shut themselves up in the inner [court of the]
temple.
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