Note 190 — Chapter XI · JUDAEA AND THE JEWS. (continued 2)

If, according to the contemporary Appian (Syr. 50), Hadrian once more destroyed (κατέσκαψε) the town, this proves as well that it was preceded by an at least in some measure complete formation of the colony, as that it was captured by the insurgents. Only thereby is explained the great loss which the Romans suffered (Fronto, de bello Parth. p. 218 Nab.: Hadriano imperium obtinente quantum militum a Iudaeis ... caesum; Dio, lxix. 14); and it accords at least well with this, that the governor of Syria, Publicius Marcellus, left his province to bring help to his colleague Tineius Rufus (Eusebius, H. E. iv. 6; Borghesi, Opp. iii. 64), in Palestine (C. I. Gr. 4033, 4034).