The Wars of the Jews, 2.435

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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435but they wanted proper instruments, and it was not practicable to undermine the wall, because the darts came down upon them from above. But still they dug a mine from a great distance under one of the towers, and made it totter; and having done that, they set on fire what was combustible, and left it;

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