. New Testament hours. as only the beginning of his miseries, for asthe great procession of the conqueror passed the Mamer-tine prison, under the Capitol, he was led away to acontemptuous death, by being thrown down from thetop of the Tarpeian Eock. By the end of SeptemberJerusalem had disappeared, excepting the towers ofHerod, and the barracks, and it lay thus in great moundsof ruin till Hadrian rebuilt it, as JElia Capitolina, aboutthe year 122. While the whole empire was rejoicing at the victoryof Titus, the conqueror forgot, in the arms of the frailBerenice, the awful scenes he had witness
. New Testament hours. as only the beginning of his miseries, for asthe great procession of the conqueror passed the Mamer-tine prison, under the Capitol, he was led away to acontemptuous death, by being thrown down from thetop of the Tarpeian Eock. By the end of SeptemberJerusalem had disappeared, excepting the towers ofHerod, and the barracks, and it lay thus in great moundsof ruin till Hadrian rebuilt it, as JElia Capitolina, aboutthe year 122. While the whole empire was rejoicing at the victoryof Titus, the conqueror forgot, in the arms of the frailBerenice, the awful scenes he had witnessed, till his long-ing to show himself in Kome, and enjoy the glory of atriumph, drove him thither. There, the spectacle wasworthy at once of the greatness of the empire and thebrutality of the age. Medals were struck: the greatarch that bears the name of the conqueror rose as a com-memoration of his victory, and still gives us a glimpse THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 429 of one portion of tlic great procession which intoxicated. S S O O Borne with its variety and splendour. Endless ranks of 430 THE CATASTROPHE laurelled veterans of every province of the Eomanworld, from the fair Briton to the swarthy Arab, and ascontrasted in arms and dress, marched amidst the strainsof music and loud trumpet flourishes, through the narrow,crowded streets, towards the Capitol. Guarded by thesoldiery, the prisoners of Jerusalem and Palestine followed,in countless weary files. Painted banners, borne aloft,displayed the chief incidents of the war, and a personi-fication of the Jordan as a river-god, looked down from
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