La chute de Jérusalem et de la conquête romaine de la Judée . Arc de Titus. COmYQUEST^ DE JUDA.A. 123 la résistance était wortliy palmiest du jours de l'Jewishname ; mais avant les guerriers de l'Ouest, il semblait asif chaque forteresse ont été à l'automne, et chaque armée pour indefeat s'effondrer, et le nom de l'Machierus wasadded inexpugnable à la long rouleau de conquêtes romaines. Peu après la mort de paroisses, et Bassus flavines Silva, qui lui a succédé immédiatement,ont défilé contre Masada, un fortresssituated sur le côté sud-ouest de la Mer Morte.. MASADA FACE NORD. En dépit de sa citadelle, et son pala

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The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . ARCH OF TITUS. COmYQUEST OF JUDA^.A. 123 resistance was wortliy of the palmiest days of the Jewishname; but before the warriors of the West it seemed asif every fortress were to fall, and every army to crumble indefeat; and the name of Machierus the impregnable wasadded to the long roll of Roman conquests. Soon after-wards Bassus died, and Flavins Silva, who succeeded him, immediately marched against Masada, a strong fortresssituated on the south-western side of the Dead Sea.. MASADA NORTHERN FACE. Notwithstanding its citadel, and its palace of sixtytowers, its massive wall, its stores of provisions, its de-termined garrison, and heroic chief—Eleazar, a descendantof Judas the Glalilean—it could not withstand the Romanforce. But it was spared the humiliation of surrender.Eleazar collected his warriors, their wives and chil- 124 CONQ VEST OF J UDJEA. dren, in the many-towered palace, and proposed, thatrather than fall into the hands of their enemies, theyshould perish by their own swords. His proposal wasat once accepted. They embraced their wives, saysMilman, they kissed their children even with tears, and at the moment, as though they had been the passiveinstruments of anothers will, they stabbed them to theheart. Not a man declined the murderous office. Butthey thought they should wrong the dead if they sur-vived them many minutes. They hastily drew togethertheir most valuable effects, and, heaping them up, set fireto these sumptuous funeral piles. Then

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