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When Agrippa had spoken thus, both he and his sister wept, and by
their tears repressed a great deal of the violence of the people; but still
they cried out, that they would not fight against the Romans, but against
Florus, on account of what they had suffered by his means. To which Agrippa
replied, that what they had already done was like such as make war against
the Romans; "for you have not paid the tribute which is due to Caesar
1 and
you have cut off the cloisters [of the temple] from joining to the tower
Antonia. You will therefore prevent any occasion of revolt if you will
but join these together again, and if you will but pay your tribute; for
the citadel does not now belong to Florus, nor are you to pay the tribute
money to Florus."
1 Julius Caesar had decreed that the Jews of Jerusalem should pay an annual tribute to the Romans, excepting the city Joppa, and for the sabbatical year; as Spanheim observes from the Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 10. sect. 6.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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