hose narrow
passages; nor indeed was the number fewer than twenty thousand that
perished in this tumult. So instead of a festival, they had at last
a mournful day of it; and they all of them forgot their prayers and
sacrifices, and betook themselves to lamentation and weeping; so great
an affliction did the impudent obsceneness of a single soldier bring
upon them. [10]

4. Now before this their first mourning was over, another mischief
befell them also; for some of those that raised the foregoing tumult,
when they were traveling along the public road, about a hundred
furlongs from the city, robbed Stephanus, a servant of Caesar, as he was
journeying, and plundered him of all that he had with him; which things
when Cureanus heard of, he sent soldiers immediately, and ordered them
to plunder the neighboring villages, and to bring the most eminent
persons among them in bonds to him. Now as this devastation was making,
one of the soldiers seized the laws of Moses that lay in one of those
villages, and brought them out before the eyes of all present, and tore
them to pieces; and this was done with reproachful language, and much
scurrility; which things when the Jews heard of, they ran together, and
that in great numbers, and came down to Cesarea, where Cumanus then was,
and besought him that he would avenge, not themselves, but God himself,
whose laws had been affronted; for that they could not bear to live any
longer, if the laws of their forefathers must be affronted after this
manner. Accordingly Cumanus, out of fear lest the multitude should go
into a sedition, and by the advice of his friends also, took care that
the soldier who had offered the affront to the laws should be beheaded,
and thereby put a stop to the sedition which was ready to be kindled a
second time.

CHAPTER 6. How There Happened A Quarrel Between The Jews And The
Samaritans; And How Claudius Put An End To Their Differences.

1. Now there arose a quarrel between the Samaritans and the Jews on the
occasion following: It was the custom of the Galileans, when they came
to the holy city at the festivals, to take their journeys through the
country of the Samaritans; [11] and at this time there lay, in the road
they took, a village that was called Ginea, which was situated in the
limits of Samaria and the great plain, where certain persons thereto
belonging fought with the Galileans, and killed a great many of them.
But when the principal of the Ga