Titns  employed  himself  in  taking  a  smrey  of  the  rains  of  this
distinguished  city :  while  admiring  the  works  and  /brtifications,
and  particularly  the  fortress  which  the  usurpers,  in  the  extrava*
gance  of  their  folly,  had  abandoned — ^while  he  was  contempla-
ting the  situation,  dimensionSi  and  elevation  of  the  towers,  with
ihe  elegance  of  the  structures,  the  curiosity  of  the  design  and
workmanship,  and  the  masterly  execution  of  the  whole,  he  ex-
pressed himself  in  the  following  manner :  *'  If  our  military  opera-
tions had  not  been  aided  by  the  immediate  interposition  of  heav-
en, it  would  have  been  impossible  that  we  should  ever  have  pos-
aessed  ourselves  of  these  fortresses*  In  a  word,  it  was  God  who
ibujght  for  and  aided  us  against  the  Jews ;  for  a  deed  has  been
accomplished,  which  the  bands  of  men  or  the  force  of  engines
could  never  have  eflfected*"

Titus  having  delivered  himself  to  this  efiect,  and  said  much
more  to  the  same  purpose,  his  next  business  was  to  restore  to
liberty  all  those  prisoners  whom  the  oppressors  bad  leA  in  the
lowers.  This  being  done,  and  the  raxing  and  demolition  of  the
city  completed,  these  towers  alone  excepted,  he  gave  orders  for
sparing  them  as  a  memorial  of  his  good  fbrtune  and  success ;  for
unless  they  had  been  abandoned,  this  success  could  never  have
arisen.
By  this  time  the  soldiers  were  perfectly  fatigued  with  the  work
of  slaughter,  notwithstanding  much  appeared  yet  to  be  done.
