[314]. Text doubtful.

[315]. i. e. the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.

[316]. Cf. [Appendix, Note VI].

[317]. The “tyrants” had encouraged optimistic false prophets in order to prevent desertion to the Romans.

[318]. March-April.

[319]. Eusebius (H.E. III. 8) reads “by the High Priest.”

[320]. Cf. Acts iv. 1; v. 24.

[321]. Or “among themselves.”

[322]. April-May.

[323]. So all the Gr. MSS (cf. Tac. Hist. v. 13, maior humanâ vox excedere deos). The Lat. version, with two other authorities, reads, “Let us depart hence.”