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HOWEVER, Florus contrived another way to oblige the Jews to begin
the war, and sent to Cestius, and accused the Jews falsely of revolting
[from the Roman government], and imputed the beginning of the former fight
to them, and pretended they had been the authors of that disturbance, wherein
they were only the sufferers. Yet were not the governors of Jerusalem silent
upon this occasion, but did themselves write to Cestius, as did Bernice
also, about the illegal practices of which Florus had been guilty against
the city; who, upon reading both accounts, consulted with his captains
[what he should do]. Now some of them thought it best for Cestius to go
up with his army, either to punish the revolt, if it was real, or to settle
the Roman affairs on a surer foundation, if the Jews continued quiet under
them; but he thought it best himself to send one of his intimate friends
beforehand, to see the state of affairs, and to give him a faithful account
of the intentions of the Jews. Accordingly, he sent one of his tribunes,
whose name was Neopolitanus, who met with king Agrippa as he was returning
from Alexandria, at Jamnia, and told him who it was that sent him, and
on what errands he was sent.
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