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myself. I also invited Simon to sup with me, and comforted him on
occasion of what had happened; and I promised that I would send him safe
and secure to Jerusalem, and withal would give him provisions for his
journey thither.

64. But on the next day, I brought ten thousand armed men with me, and
came to Tiberias. I then sent for the principal men of the multitude
into the public place, and enjoined them to tell me who were the authors
of the revolt; and when they told me who the men were, I sent them bound
to the city Jotapata. But as to Jonathan and Ananias, I freed them from
their bonds, and gave them provisions for their journey, together with
Simon and Joazar, and five hundred armed men who should guard them;
and so I sent them to Jerusalem. The people of Tiberias also came to me
again, and desired that I would forgive them for what they had done; and
they said they would amend what they had done amiss with regard to me,
by their fidelity for the time to come; and they besought me to preserve
what spoils remained upon the plunder of the city, for those that had
lost them. Accordingly, I enjoined those that had got them, to bring
them all before us; and when they did not comply for a great while, and
I saw one of the soldiers that were about me with a garment on that was
more splendid than ordinary, I asked him whence he had it; and when
he replied that he had it out of the plunder of the city, I had him
punished with stripes; and I threatened all the rest to inflict a
severer punishment upon them, unless they produced before us whatsoever
they had plundered; and when a great many spoils were brought together,
I restored to every one of Tiberias what they claimed to be their own.

65. And now I am come to this part of my narration, I have a mind to say
a few things to Justus, who hath himself written a history concerning
these affairs, as also to others who profess to write history, but have
little regard to truth, and are not afraid, either out of ill-will or
good-will to some persons, to relate falsehoods. These men do like
those who compose forged deeds and conveyances; and because they are not
brought to the like punishment with them, they have no regard to truth.
When, therefore, Justus undertook to write about these facts, and about
the Jewish war, that he might appear to have been an industrious man,
he falsified in what he related about me, and could not speak truth
even about his own country; whence it