Deed — 2 authors face each other below

siege of Jerusalem

kind: siege · 70 CE — the editor’s frame · 9 mentions across 7 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

Titus' siege ending in the Temple's destruction. Tacitus' narrative breaks off with the siege in progress — the rest of Histories book 5 is lost; the house says so rather than papering the gap.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Tacitus mounts a full ethnographic digression before letting Titus close on the walls, and his account is cut off by the manuscript itself; Suetonius compresses the siege to twelve arrows and a birthday. Between the broken analyst and the anecdotal biographer, the served record is honestly incomplete.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 70 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 70 CE — date secure ·

70 CE; Tacitus' account opens 'at the beginning of the same year' as Titus took command (Hist. 5.1), and Suetonius dates the city's fall to Titus' daughter's birthday.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Suetonius · one account

5 the principal narrative The biographer's miniature: the final assault, the acclamation of the troops.

in the final attack on Jerusalem he slew twelve of the defenders with as many arrows; and he took the city on his daughter’s birthday Suet. Tit. 5

The Deified Titus · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Tacitus · one account

5.1–5.13 the principal narrative The siege opening and the city's defenses, after the famous excursus on the Jews; the narrative breaks off mid-siege.

Titus himself had Rome with all its wealth and pleasures before his eyes. Jerusalem must fall at once Tac. Hist. 5.11

The extant text ends before the fall — the primary witness is a torso, and the index labels it so. The Histories · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1864

…and the house’s first pass counts 5 more episodes beyond these anchors.

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Titus — 3 episodes shared Antiochus — a candidate entry Herod — a candidate entry Claudius — a candidate entry Emperor — a candidate entry Galba — 1 episode shared Publius — a candidate entry Venus — 1 episode shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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