Nothing can be done here," he observed, shrugging his shoulders.
She gazed at him with immense contempt.
"That from a son of Judas Maccabaeus!" she exclaimed.
He looked disconcerted.
"Why not ?" he urged.

"It is neither rational nor practical to attempt the impossible.

Jerusalem is doomed.

I would but add myself to the sacrifice did I interfere between destruction and its sure prey." After a silence in which she confronted him with many emotions showing on her face, she said with infinite pity and disappointment: "O Philadelphus, you to throw greatness away!" "Where, O my mysterious genius, are my army, my engines, my subsistence, my advantage and the prize ?" "What was that dowry which was stolen from me to purchase for you but these things?
I brought it for this purpose.

Another than myself delivered it to you; the end is achieved; what use will you make of it ?" "There is no nation here for that dowry to defend, no crown for it to support.