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But as for the Acrabbene toparchy, Simon, the son of Gioras, got
a great number of those that were fond of innovations together, and betook
himself to ravage the country; nor did he only harass the rich men's houses,
but tormented their bodies, and appeared openly and beforehand to affect
tyranny in his government. And when an army was sent against him by Artanus,
and the other rulers, he and his band retired to the robbers that were
at Masada, and staid there, and plundered the country of Idumea with them,
till both Ananus and his other adversaries were slain; and until the rulers
of that country were so afflicted with the multitude of those that were
slain, and with the continual ravage of what they had, that they raised
an army, and put garrisons into the villages, to secure them from those
insults. And in this state were the affairs of Judea at that time.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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