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Chap. 21.
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of hate to the Nation and their Religion; twenty thousand.

At Scythopolus a City of Cælosyria, thirteen thousand.

At Ascalon in Palestine by the inhabitants also, two thousand five hundered.

At Ptolemais in like manner, two thousand.

At Alexandria in Ægypt under Tyberius Alexander the then Governour; fifty thousand.

At Damascus, ten thousand.

All this was done seditiously, and by way of tumult; but there were slain besides in a just and open warr by the Romans

At the taking of Ioppa by Cæsius Florus, eight thousand and four hundred.

On a Mountain called Cabulon, two thousand.

In a fight at Ascalon, ten thousand.

Besides by stratagem, eight thousand.

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