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But as for the multitude of the Jews, they addressed themselves to
the king, and to the high priests, and desired they might have leave to
send ambassadors to Nero against Florus, and not by their silence afford
a suspicion that they had been the occasions of such great slaughters as
had been made, and were disposed to revolt, alleging that they should seem
to have been the first beginners of the war, if they did not prevent the
report by showing who it was that began it; and it appeared openly that
they would not be quiet, if any body should hinder them from sending such
an embassage. But Agrippa, although he thought it too dangerous a thing
for them to appoint men to go as the accusers of Florus, yet did he not
think it fit for him to overlook them, as they were in a disposition for
war. He therefore called the multitude together into a large gallery, and
placed his sister Bernice in the house of the Asamoneans, that she might
be seen by them, (which house was over the gallery, at the passage to the
upper city, where the bridge joined the temple to the gallery,) and spake
to them as follows:
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