Now, everywhere above such portions of the beleaguered city as remained standing, shot up tall spires and wreaths of flame.

Titus had forced the walls, and thousands upon thousands of Jews were perishing beneath the swords of his soldiers, or in the fires of their burning homes.

Still, some ninety thousand were left alive, to be driven like cattle into the Court of Women.

Here more than ten thousand died of starvation, while some were set aside to grace the Triumph, some to be slaughtered in the amphitheatres at Caesarea and Berytus, but the most were transported to Egypt, there, until they died, to labour in the desert mines.

Thus was the last desolation accomplished and the prophecy fulfilled: "And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships.