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And thus did he continue to admonish them. Now he chose for the war
such an army as was sufficient, i.e. sixty thousand footmen, and two hundred
and fifty horsemen; 1
and besides these, on which he put the greatest trust, there were about
four thousand five hundred mercenaries; he had also six hundred men as
guards of his body. Now the cities easily maintained the rest of his army,
excepting the mercenaries, for every one of the cities enumerated above
sent out half their men to the army, and retained the other half at home,
in order to get provisions for them; insomuch that the one part went to
the war, and the other part to their work, and so those that sent out their
corn were paid for it by those that were in arms, by that security which
they enjoyed from them.
2
1 I should think that an army of sixty thousand footmen should require many more than two hundred and fifty horsemen; and we find Josephus had more horsemen under his command than two hundred and fifty in his future history. I suppose the number of the thousands is dropped in our present copies.
2 CONCERNING JOHN OF GICHALA. JOSEPHUS USES STRATAGEMS AGAINST THE PLOTS JOHN LAID AGAINST HIM AND RECOVERS CERTAIN CITIES WHICH HAD REVOLTED FROM HIM.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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