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Now Josephus thought, that if he resolved to stay, it would be ascribed
to their entreaties; and if he resolved to go away by force, he should
be put into custody. His commiseration also of the people under their lamentations
had much broken that his eagerness to leave them; so he resolved to stay,
and arming himself with the common despair of the citizens, he said to
them, "Now is the time to begin to fight in earnest, when there is
no hope of deliverance left. It is a brave thing to prefer glory before
life, and to set about some such noble undertaking as may be remembered
by late posterity." Having said this, he fell to work immediately,
and made a sally, and dispersed the enemies' out-guards, and ran as far
as the Roman camp itself, and pulled the coverings of their tents to pieces,
that were upon their banks, and set fire to their works. And this was the
manner in which he never left off fighting, neither the next day, nor the
day after it, but went on with it for a considerable number of both days
and nights.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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