1. In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks in Cyprus,
240,000; in Egypt a very great multitude. Many of these
unhappy victims were sawn asunder, according to a precedent
to which David had given the sanction of his example. The
victorious Jews devoured the flesh, licked up the blood and
twisted the entrails like a girdle round their bodies. See
Dion Cassius, l. lxviii. [c. 32] p. 1145.