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Josephus also, when he had settled these rules for determining causes
by the law, with regard to the people's dealings one with another, betook
himself to make provisions for their safety against external violence;
and as he knew the Romans would fall upon Galilee, he built walls in proper
places about Jotapata, and Bersabee, and Selamis; and besides these, about
Caphareccho, and Japha, and Sigo, and what they call Mount Tabor, and Tarichee,
and Tiberias. Moreover, he built walls about the caves near the lake of
Gennesar, which places lay in the Lower Galilee; the same he did to the
places of Upper Galilee, as well as to the rock called the Rock of the
Achabari, and to Seph, and Jamnith, and Meroth; and in Gaulonitis he fortified
Seleucia, and Sogane, and Gamala; but as to those of Sepphoris, they were
the only people to whom he gave leave to build their own walls, and this
because he perceived they were rich and wealthy, and ready to go to war,
without standing in need of any injunctions for that purpose. The case
was the same with Gischala, which had a wall built about it by John the
son of Levi himself, but with the consent of Josephus; but for the building
of the rest of the fortresses, he labored together with all the other builders,
and was present to give all the necessary orders for that purpose. He also
got together an army out of Galilee, of more than a hundred thousand young
men, all of which he armed with the old weapons which he had collected
together and prepared for them.
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