Hierosoly̆ma

, a celebrated city of Palestine, the capital of Judæa, taken by Pompey, who, on that account, is surnamed Hierosolymarius . Titus also took it and destroyed it, the 8th of September, A.D. 70, according to Joseph us, 2177 years after its foundation. In the siege by Titus, 110,000 persons are said to have perished, and 97,000 to have been made prisoners, and afterwards either sold for slaves, or wantonly exposed, for the sport of their insolent victors, to the fury of wild beasts. Joseph us , War of the Jews , bk. 7 , ch. 16 , . — Cicero , Letters to Atticus , bk. 2 , ltr. 2 .— Flaccus , bk. 28 .