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AS Josephus was speaking thus with a loud voice, the seditious would
neither yield to what he said, nor did they deem it safe for them to alter
their conduct; but as for the people, they had a great inclination to desert
to the Romans; accordingly, some of them sold what they had, and even the
most precious things that had been laid up as treasures by them, for every
small matter, and swallowed down pieces of gold, that they might not be
found out by the robbers; and when they had escaped to the Romans, went
to stool, and had wherewithal to provide plentifully for themselves; for
Titus let a great number of them go away into the country, whither they
pleased. And the main reasons why they were so ready to desert were these:
That now they should be freed from those miseries which they had endured
in that city, and yet should not be in slavery to the Romans: however,
John and Simon, with their factions, did more carefully watch these men's
going out than they did the coming in of the Romans; and if any one did
but afford the least shadow of suspicion of such an intention, his throat
was cut immediately.
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