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NOW about this very time it was that heavy calamities came about
Rome on all sides; for Vitellius was come from Germany with his soldiery,
and drew along with him a great multitude of other men besides. And when
the spaces allotted for soldiers could not contain them, he made all Rome
itself his camp, and filled all the houses with his armed men; which men,
when they saw the riches of Rome with those eyes which had never seen such
riches before, and found themselves shone round about on all sides with
silver and gold, they had much ado to contain their covetous desires, and
were ready to betake themselves to plunder, and to the slaughter of such
as should stand in their way. And this was the state of affairs in Italy
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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