With varying success they made sally upon sally.

Titus took the third wall and the new city of Bezetha.

He took the second wall and pulled it down.

Then he sent Josephus, the historian, to persuade the Jews to surrender, but his countrymen cursed and stoned him, and the war went on.
At length, as it seemed to be impossible to carry the place by assault, Titus adopted a surer and more terrible plan.

Enclosing the first unconquered wall, the Temple, and the fortress by another wall of his own making, he sat down and waited for starvation to do its work.