[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).”