It will not be even a glorious defeat.

You will be swallowed up in an immense calamity too tremendous to offer publicity to so infinitesimal a detail as the death of one Philadelphus Maccabaeus.

Agrippa has deserted the city and when a Herod lets go of his own, his own is not worth the holding.

The city is torn between factions as implacable as the sea and the land.

The conservatives are either dead or fled; pillage and disorder are the main motives of all that are left.