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AND now Vespasian pitched his camp between this city and Taricheae,
but fortified his camp more strongly, as suspecting that he should be forced
to stay there, and have a long war; for all the innovators had gotten together
at Taricheae, as relying upon the strength of the city, and on the lake
that lay by it. This lake is called by the people of the country the Lake
of Gennesareth. The city itself is situated like Tiberias, at the bottom
of a mountain, and on those sides which are not washed by the sea, had
been strongly fortified by Josephus, though not so strongly as Tiberias;
for the wall of Tiberias had been built at the beginning of the Jews' revolt,
when he had great plenty of money, and great power, but Tarichese partook
only the remains of that liberality, Yet had they a great number of ships
gotten ready upon the lake, that, in case they were beaten at land, they
might retire to them; and they were so fitted up, that they might undertake
a Sea-fight also. But as the Romans were building a wall about their camp,
Jesu and his party were neither affrighted at their number, nor at the
good order they were in, but made a sally upon them; and at the very first
onset the builders of the wall were dispersed; and these pulled what little
they had before built to pieces; but as soon as they saw the armed men
getting together, and before they had suffered any thing themselves, they
retired to their own men. But then the Romans pursued them, and drove them
into their ships, where they launched out as far as might give them the
opportunity of reaching the Romans with what they threw at them, and then
cast anchor, and brought their ships close, as in a line of battle, and
thence fought the enemy from the sea, who were themselves at land. But
Vespasian hearing that a great multitude of them were gotten together in
the plain that was before the city, he thereupon sent his son, with six
hundred chosen horsemen, to disperse them.
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