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These were the afflictions which the lower sort of people suffered
from these tyrants' guards; but for the men that were in dignity, and withal
were rich, they were carried before the tyrants themselves; some of whom
were falsely accused of laying treacherous plots, and so were destroyed;
others of them were charged with designs of betraying the city to the Romans;
but the readiest way of all was this, to suborn somebody to affirm that
they were resolved to desert to the enemy. And he who was utterly despoiled
of what he had by Simon was sent back again to John, as of those who had
been already plundered by Jotre, Simon got what remained; insomuch that
they drank the blood of the populace to one another, and divided the dead
bodies of the poor creatures between them; so that although, on account
of their ambition after dominion, they contended with each other, yet did
they very well agree in their wicked practices; for he that did not communicate
what he got by the miseries of others to the other tyrant seemed to be
too little guilty, and in one respect only; and he that did not partake
of what was so communicated to him grieved at this, as at the loss of what
was a valuable thing, that he had no share in such barbarity.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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