[254]. Gr. “Gabao.”
[255]. Gr. “stades.”
[256]. Falling within the week of the Feast of Tabernacles.
[257]. Some MSS insert a negative, “the part of the line which had not yet given way.”
[258]. Or “Borcius.”
[259]. Gr. “stades.”
[260]. Perhaps “up to.”
[261]. At the N.E. corner of the city. Other MSS “Bethesda” Niese, “Betheza,” as elsewhere in Josephus.
[262]. Testudo.
[263]. Or “shattered (lit. ‘condemned’) their hopes (of success).”