Titus was at this time not yet Emperor; but among the Jewish writers, all rulers from Rome are referred to as Cæsar, or Emperor, or King. The Herods were really only deputies; but they were always called Kings. Titus was still a very young man and his leading general, Trajan, could not have been very much past his early twenties. In the most scandal-loving age Rome ever knew, very little has come down in history against Vespasian and his son Titus. Both men were essentially soldiers and cared little for the empty noise of triumph and kingship, though to keep the populace loyal Titus erected the Great Arch, under which more than 30,000 Jewish captives passed and on one side of which the Jewish Tables of the Law were represented. Vespasian and Titus built the Temple of Peace to celebrate the victory; but if you read Josephus carefully, it will be found this was more in concession to mob politics than to glory in triumph. It was to impress the seething East with fear of Rome’s power. The attempt of the Nazarenes and the scribes to save the sacred scrolls is history, not fiction. Many old Hebrew scrolls mentioned in the Old Testament were lost forever at this time. There were the _Book of the Covenant_, the _Book of the Law_, the _Book of the Wars_, _Acts of David_, _Samuel the Seer_, the _Book of Gad_, David’s _Seer_—and seven other volumes not embodied by Ezra in Scripture, but known to the Jews. Among the lost scrolls there is a story told of the _Book of Jasher_ of which an 1840 translation lies before me. This book is mentioned in the David wars, and several forgeries of _Jasher_ appeared. It is said the genuine _Jasher_ was brought from Jerusalem by Titus. When his officers went to plunder the city, one _Sidrus_ found in a secret wall chamber in an ancient scribe’s house, a library of books among which sat the old scribe reading. Somehow, _Jasher_ was carried by the Army officers to Seville and in 1613 it was printed in Venice. That many old scrolls were carried to Spain either by the dispersed Jews, or by the Roman Army, there is no doubt; for after the expulsion of the Moors from Granada centuries later, thousands of such Hebrew volumes were burned in mistake for pagan Arabic. Intolerance and fanatic ignorance are dangerous weapons, whether ancient or modern.