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Now, as soon as the inhabitants of that city understood the perfidiousness
of the people of Tiberias, they were greatly provoked at them. So they
snatched up their arms, and desired me to be their leader against them;
for they said they would avenge their commander's cause upon them. They
also carried the report of what had been done to me to all the Galileans,
and eagerly endeavored to irritate them against the people of Tiberias,
and desired that vast numbers of them would get together, and come to them,
that they might act in concert with their commander, what should be determined
as fit to be done. Accordingly, the Galileans came to me in great numbers,
from all parts, with their weapons, and besought me to assault Tiberias,
to take it by force, and to demolish it, till it lay even with the ground,
and then to make slaves of its inhabitants, with their wives and children.
Those that were Josephus's friends also, and had escaped out of Tiberias,
gave him the same advice. But I did not comply with them, thinking it a
terrible thing to begin a civil war among them; for I thought that this
contention ought not to proceed further than words; nay, I told them that
it was not for their own advantage to do what they would have me to do,
while the Romans expected no other than that we should destroy one another
by our mutual seditions. And by saying this, I put a stop to the anger
of the Galileans.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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