Note 68 — OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39]
Reading edition
Lib. 2. There were 8000 killed during the siege, and the whole captives amounted to 30,000. Diodorus Siculus (lib. 17) says only 13,000; but he accounts for this small number by saying that the Tyrians had sent away beforehand part of their wives and children to Carthage.