[237] Joseph., Bell. Jud. vi. 9, § 3.
[238] Tac. Hist. v. 13.
[239] This is the most probable explanation of the smallness of his estimate of the numbers in the city during the siege. The ordinary population would probably be about the amount he gives.
[240] Joseph., Bell. Jud. iii. 3, § 2.
[241] Diodor. Sic. xl. Eclog. 1.
[242] Strabo xvi. 2, § 28.
[243] Tacitus, Hist. v. 8.
[244] Dion Cass. lxix. 14. Dion makes the astonishing assertion that Adrian destroyed nearly 1000 towns κῶμαι ὀνομαστοτόται in Palestine, besides fortresses.
[245] Philo, Legat. ad Gaium, § 36.
[246] The increase of population is said by those who have made the subject their study, to be 1/227 annually, or according to others, 1/223.