. The works of Josephus. he Parthians; after they had fetled the af-fairs oïjudea, fo as no longer to need their prefence. Herod willingly lent Silo untoVentidius ; and in the mean time he with his Army went againft the Thieves in th^Caves. Thefe Caves were in very fteep Mountains, fo that there was no way to cometo them, fave only by crooked and very narrow paffages : And thefe Mountains were? all Rocks of Stone, hanging over the Valleys ; fo that the King a great while was doubt-ful what to do, feeing the place fo inaccellibic. At laft, Herod devifed a way fcarcelyheard of before; for he put
. The works of Josephus. he Parthians; after they had fetled the af-fairs oïjudea, fo as no longer to need their prefence. Herod willingly lent Silo untoVentidius ; and in the mean time he with his Army went againft the Thieves in th^Caves. Thefe Caves were in very fteep Mountains, fo that there was no way to cometo them, fave only by crooked and very narrow paffages : And thefe Mountains were? all Rocks of Stone, hanging over the Valleys ; fo that the King a great while was doubt-ful what to do, feeing the place fo inaccellibic. At laft, Herod devifed a way fcarcelyheard of before; for he put the valianceft ofhis men into Chefts, and fo let them downto the mouthb of the Caves, where they killed the Thieves and their Families, and put Ofire to them that rciifteJ. And Herod\ke^o to favefome of them, cauied a Trumpetto publilh to them, that they might come to him with fafety •?, but there was not one that Ant. lib. ^. 24. ,V{iro(t takeththe City of Sifhons. Viirod fettethforth againftthe Book I. of the JEWS. 577 A that canle 5 and thofe that were forced, chofe rather to kill themfclves than be his Cap- Ç^-^^^^mes: So that an old man having feven Sons and a Wife, who all requefted him that itmiZ^l^éfthey might go foith to the King and (ave their lives, killed them all after this manner: H^fchnfi^Himfelf ftood before the door oif the Cave, and bad them come forth one by one, and ^^^^X^^!^always as one of them came forth, he killed him. And Herod being in a place wherehe might behold this fpeâacle, being moved with compafTion, ftretched forth his handand requefted him to fpare his Children .• But he being nothing moved to compaiiioaby Herod i words, upbraided Herods meannels of mind 5 and having butchered his Sons,he alfo killed his Wife; and cafting the dead Bodies down into the Valleys, at lalt hecaft himfelf likewife down Herod having thus taken the Caves, and flain thofe that were in them, left fuch apart of his Army, as he thought
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