Compassionate women ate children; Roman siege shatter

Lest the women seem to have eaten the children through savagery, he says they are compassionate; and he attaches the passion to the necessity of lack. And “they kindled” shows the kindling and roasting, which indeed came about upon the Romans’ siege; for which reason he also calls the complete destruction of the nation a shatter. And in the second alphabetic sequence of the Laments he also remembers the present passion. And this and the other passions Josephus has handed down with precision in the things about the capture.