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WHILE Titus was at Cesarea, he solemnized the birthday of his brother
Domitian] after a splendid manner, and inflicted a great deal of the punishment
intended for the Jews in honor of him; for the number of those that were
now slain in fighting with the beasts, and were burnt, and fought with
one another, exceeded two thousand five hundred. Yet did all this seem
to the Romans, when they were thus destroyed ten thousand several ways,
to be a punishment beneath their deserts. After this Caesar came to Berytus,
1 which
is a city of Phoenicia, and a Roman colony, and staid there a longer time,
and exhibited a still more pompous solemnity about his father's birthday,
both in the magnificence of the shows, and in the other vast expenses he
was at in his devices thereto belonging; so that a great multitude of the
captives were here destroyed after the same manner as before.
1 This Berytus was certainly a Roman colony, and has coins extant that witness the same, as Hudson and Spanheim inform us. See the note on Antiq. B. XVI: ch. 11. sect. 1.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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