[Footnote 106: The lively scepticism of Voltaire is balanced
with sense and erudition by the French author of the Esprit
des Croisades, (tom. iv. p. 386 - 388,) who observes, that,
according to the Arabians, the inhabitants of Jerusalem must
have exceeded 200,000; that in the siege of Titus, Josephus
collects 1,300,000 Jews; that they are stated by Tacitus
himself at 600,000; and that the largest defalcation, that
his accepimus can justify, will still leave them more
numerous than the Roman army.]