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AND now the seditious rushed into the royal palace, into which many
had put their effects, because it was so strong, and drove the Romans away
from it. They also slew all the people that had crowded into it, who were
in number about eight thousand four hundred, and plundered them of what
they had. They also took two of the Romans alive; the one was a horseman,
and the other a footman. They then cut the throat of the footman, and immediately
had him drawn through the whole city, as revenging themselves upon the
whole body of the Romans by this one instance. But the horseman said he
had somewhat to suggest to them in order to their preservation; whereupon
he was brought before Simon; but he having nothing to say when he was there,
he was delivered to Ardalas, one of his commanders, to be punished, who
bound his hands behind him, and put a riband over his eyes, and then brought
him out over against the Romans, as intending to cut off his head. But
the man prevented that execution, and ran away to the Romans, and this
while the Jewish executioner was drawing out his sword. Now when he was
gotten away from the enemy, Titus could not think of putting him to death;
but because he deemed him unworthy of being a Roman soldier any longer,
on account that he had been taken alive by the enemy, he took away his
arms, and ejected him out of the legion whereto he had belonged; which,
to one that had a sense of shame, was a penalty severer than death itself.
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