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Now the Roman garrisons, which guarded the cities, partly out of
their uneasiness to take such trouble upon them, and partly out of the
hatred they bare to the Jewish nation, did little or nothing towards relieving
the miserable, till the captains of these troops of robbers, being satiated
with rapines in the country, got all together from all parts, and became
a band of wickedness, and all together crept into Jerusalem, which was
now become a city without a governor, and, as the ancient custom was, received
without distinction all that belonged to their nation; and these they then
received, because all men supposed that those who came so fast into the
city came out of kindness, and for their assistance, although these very
men, besides the seditions they raised, were otherwise the direct cause
of the city's destruction also; for as they were an unprofitable and a
useless multitude, they spent those provisions beforehand which might otherwise
have been sufficient for the fighting men. Moreover, besides the bringing
on of the war, they were the occasions of sedition and famine therein.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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