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Ταῦθ᾽ ἅμα λέγων ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον ἀνεπήδα καὶ καθηγεῖται
πρὸς τὴν λίμνην, δι᾽ ἧς ἐλάσας πρῶτος εἰς τὴν πόλιν εἰσέρχεται
καὶ μετ᾽ αὐτὸν οἱ λοιποί.
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δέος δὲ πρὸς τὴν τόλμαν αὐτοῦ τοῖς
ἐπὶ τῶν τειχῶν ἐνέπεσεν, καὶ μάχεσθαι μὲν ἢ διακωλύειν οὐδεὶς
ὑπέμεινεν, λιπόντες δὲ τὴν φρουρὰν οἱ μὲν περὶ τὸν Ἰησοῦν διὰ
τῆς χώρας ἔφευγον,
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οἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ τὴν λίμνην καταθέοντες ὑπαντιάζουσιν
τοῖς πολεμίοις περιέπιπτον: ἐκτείνοντο δ᾽ οἱ μὲν ἐπιβαίνοντες
τῶν σκαφῶν, οἱ δὲ τοῖς ἀναχθεῖσιν προσπίπτειν πειρώμενοι.
πολὺς δὲ τῶν κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἦν φόνος,
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τῶν μὲν ἐπηλύδων ὅσοι
μὴ διαφυγεῖν ἔφθασαν ἀντιτασσομένων, ἀμαχητὶ δὲ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων:
κατὰ γὰρ ἐλπίδα δεξιᾶς καὶ τὸ συνειδὸς τοῦ μὴ βεβουλεῦσθαι
πολεμεῖν μάχης ἀπετρέποντο,
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μέχρι Τίτος τοὺς μὲν αἰτίους ἀνελών,
οἰκτείρας δὲ τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους ἀνεπαύσατο φόνου.
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καὶ οἱ μὲν εἰς
τὴν λίμνην καταφυγόντες ἐπεὶ τὴν πόλιν εἶδον ἑαλωκυῖαν, ὡς πορρωτάτω
τῶν πολεμίων ἀνήχθησαν:
Flavius Josephus. Flavii Iosephi opera. B. Niese. Berlin. Weidmann. 1895.
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