It will take two hundred talents to repay me for all that I have suffered to get it.

I want the countersign, Titus.

You owe me it." "Will you come out of there, at once ?" the Roman demanded.

"Not that I suspect you will make the city harder to take, but I should dislike to make war on an old comrade in my Ephesian revels." The Maccabee looked doubtful.
"I can not promise," he said.

"At least do not hold off the siege until you see me again without the walls.