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Titus, had sought refuge upon the water. The chap. 
victory gained by the Romans was followed ^ 
by such a terrible slaughter of the Jeivs, that slaughter 
nothing was to be seen, either upon the lake 
or along its shores, excepting blood, and the 
mangled corpses of the insurgents : their dead 
bodies infected the air to such a degree, that 
the victors as Avell as the vanquished were 
sufferers upon the occasion : the number of the 
slain, after the two actions, (that of TarichcEa 
and the naval engagement which followed,) 
amounted to six thousand five hundred persons. 
Neither was the slaughter less memorable 
of the prisoners, who were marched to Tiberias 
as soon as the victory had been obtained. 
Vespasian caused them all to be shut up in the 
amphitheatre ; where twelve hundred of them 
were put to death, being unable or unfit to 
bear arms. This amphitheatre, according to 
the account given by Joseph iS, v/as large 
enough to contain ^ thirty-seven thousand six 
hundred persons, (besides a vast num.ber of 
others who were given as slaves by Vespasian 
censured for it. The author cure heard him express an intention 
of proving this last to he the only correct appellation. 
(3) Future travellers will perhaps discover the remains of a huilduig: 
of this masnitudc. 
