one of them escaped. And a terrible stink, and a very sad sight
there was on the following days over that country; for as for the
shores, they were full of shipwrecks, and of dead bodies all
swelled; and as the dead bodies were inflamed by the sun, and
putrefied, they corrupted the air, insomuch that the misery was
not only the object of commiseration to the Jews, but to those
that hated them, and had been the authors of that misery. This
was the upshot of the sea-fight. The number of the slain,
including those that were killed in the city before, was six
thousand and five hundred.

10. After this fight was over, Vespasian sat upon his tribunal at
Taricheae, in order to distinguish the foreigners from the old
inhabitants; for those foreigners appear to have begun the war.
So he deliberated with the other commanders, whether he ought to
save those old inhabitants or not. And when those commanders
alleged that the dismission of them would be to his own
disadvantage, because, when they were once set at liberty, they
would not be at rest, since they would be people destitute of
proper habitations, and would he able to compel such as they fled
to fight against us, Vespasian acknowledged that they did not
deserve to be saved, and that if they had leave given them to fly
away, they would make use of it against those that gave them that
leave. But still he considered with himself after what manner
they should be slain (8) for if he had them slain there, he
suspected the people of the country would thereby become his
enemies; for that to be sure they would never bear it, that so
many that had been supplicants to him should be killed; and to
offer violence to them, after he had given them assurances of
their lives, he could not himself bear to do it. However, his