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But before I had spoken all I designed, I heard one of my own domestics
bidding me come down, for that it was not a proper time to take care of
retaining the good-will of the people of Tiberias, but to provide for my
own safety, and escape my enemies there; for John had chosen the most trusty
of those armed men that were about him out of those thousand that he had
with him, and had given them orders when he sent them, to kill me, having
learned that I was alone, excepting some of my domestics. So those that
were sent came as they were ordered, and they had executed what they came
about, had I not leaped down from the elevation I stood on, and with one
of my guards, whose name was James, been carried [out of the crowd] upon
the back of one Herod of Tiberias, and guided by him down to the lake,
where I seized a ship, and got into it, and escaped my enemies unexpectedly,
and came to Tarichese.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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