![]() ![]() For they found the fighting men of the Jews to be not at all mollified among such their sore afflictions while they had themselves perpetually less and less hopes of success and their banks were forced to yield to the stratagems of the enemy their engines to the firmness of their wall and their closest fights to the boldness of their attacks. ![]() Nay the very calamities themselves that were in the city proved a greater discouragement to the Romans, than to those within the city. For there was a mighty scarcity of materials and the bodies of the soldiers began to fail with such hard labours, as did their souls faint with so many instances of ill success. For the Jews expected that the city would be taken, unless they could burn those banks as did the Romans expect that if these were once burnt down, they should never be able to take it. And now the banks were finished, they afforded a foundation for fear, both to the Romans, and to the Jews. Nor if any one that had known the place before, had come on a sudden to it now, would he have known it again: but though he were at the city it self, yet would he have enquired for it notwithstanding.Ģ. ![]() For the war had laid all the signs of beauty quite waste. ![]() Nor could any foreigner that had formerly seen Judea, and the most beautiful suburbs of the city, and now saw it, as a desert but lament and mourn sadly at so great a change. For those places which were before adorned with trees, and pleasant gardens, were now become a desolate country every way and its trees were all cut down. And truly the very view itself of the country was a melancholy thing. And now the Romans, although they were greatly distressed in getting together their materials, raised their banks in one and twenty days after they had cut down all the trees that were in the country that adjoined to the city: and that for ninety furlongs round about as I have already related. For the war was not now gone on with, as if they had any hope of victory: for they gloried after a brutish manner in that despair of deliverance they were already in. But as they had their right hands already polluted with the murders of their own country men, and in that condition ran out to fight with foreigners, they seem to me to have cast a reproach upon God himself as if he were too slow in punishing them. Nor did they deem this affront offered to the deceased to be any ill omen to themselves. But as those were to go in battle array, who had been already used to ten thousand murders, and must tread upon those dead bodies as they marched along, so were not they terrified, nor did they pity men as they marched over them. And indeed the multitude of carcasses that lay in heaps one upon another was an horrible sight and produced a pestilential stench which was an hindrance to those that would make sallies out of the city, and fight the enemy. Thus did the miseries of Jerusalem grow worse and worse every day and the seditious were still more irritated by the calamities they were under, even while the famine preyed upon themselves after it had preyed upon the people. That the miseries still grew worse: and how the Romans madeġ. The official trailer for Despicable Me.Containing the interval of about one month.įrom the great extremity to which the Jews were reduced, to the taking of Jerusalem by Titus. Home video timeline Main article: Home video timeline for the Despicable Me series Websites Gallery It was also so far Illumination's only film in production to date until July 15, 2009.
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