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For now it was that the Roman general came, and led his army against
Eleazar and those Sicarii who held the fortress Masada together with him;
and for the whole country adjoining, he presently gained it, and put garrisons
into the most proper places of it; he also built a wall quite round the
entire fortress, that none of the besieged might easily escape; he also
set his men to guard the several parts of it; he also pitched his camp
in such an agreeable place as he had chosen for the siege, and at which
place the rock belonging to the fortress did make the nearest approach
to the neighboring mountain, which yet was a place of difficulty for getting
plenty of provisions; for it was not only food that was to be brought from
a great distance [to the army], and this with a great deal of pain to those
Jews who were appointed for that purpose, but water was also to be brought
to the camp, because the place afforded no fountain that was near it. When
therefore Silva had ordered these affairs beforehand, he fell to besieging
the place; which siege was likely to stand in need of a great deal of skill
and pains, by reason of the strength of the fortress, the nature of which
I will now describe.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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