to satiety, which they had themselves.
However, when the seditious still showed no inclinations of yielding,
Titus, out of his commiseration of the people that remained, and out
of his earnest desire of rescuing what was still left out of these
miseries, began to raise his banks again, although materials for them
were hard to be come at; for all the trees that were about the city had
been already cut down for the making of the former banks. Yet did the
soldiers bring with them other materials from the distance of ninety
furlongs, and thereby raised banks in four parts, much greater than the
former, though this was done only at the tower of Antonia. So Caesar
went his rounds through the legions, and hastened on the works, and
showed the robbers that they were now in his hands. But these men, and
these only, were incapable of repenting of the wickednesses they had
been guilty of; and separating their souls from their bodies, they used
them both as if they belonged to other folks, and not to themselves. For
no gentle affection could touch their souls, nor could any pain affect
their bodies, since they could still tear the dead bodies of the people
as dogs do, and fill the prisons with those that were sick.

CHAPTER 13.

The Great Slaughters And Sacrilege That Were In Jerusalem.

1. Accordingly Simon would not suffer Matthias, by whose means he got
possession of the city, to go off without torment. This Matthias was the
son of Boethus, and was one of the high priests, one that had been very
faithful to the people, and in great esteem with them; he, when the
multitude were distressed by the zealots, among whom John was numbered,
persuaded the people to admit this Simon to come in to assist them,
while he had made no terms with him, nor expected any thing that was
evil from him. But when Simon was come in, and had gotten the city under
his power, he esteemed him that had advised them to admit him as his
enemy equally with the rest, as looking upon that advice as a piece
of his simplicity only; so he had him then brought before him, and
condemned to die for being on the side of the Romans, without giving him
leave to make his defense. He condemned also his three sons to die with
him; for as to the fourth, he prevented him by running away to Titus
before. And when he begged for this, that he might be slain before his
sons, and that as a favor, on account that he had procured the gates of
the city to be opened to him,