ent, and the care that I had
for its preservation.

70. About this time it was that Justus, the son of Pistus, without
my knowledge, ran away to the king; the occasion of which I will here
relate. Upon the beginning of the war between the Jews and Romans, the
people of Tiberias resolved to submit to the king, and not to revolt
from the Romans; while Justus tried to persuade them to betake
themselves to their arms, as being himself desirous of innovations, and
having hopes of obtaining the government of Galilee, as well as of his
own country [Tiberias] also. Yet did he not obtain what he hoped for,
because the Galileans bore ill-will to those of Tiberias, and this on
account of their anger at what miseries they had suffered from them
before the war; thence it was that they would not endure that Justus
should be their governor. I myself also, who had been intrusted by the
community of Jerusalem with the government of Galilee, did frequently
come to that degree of rage at Justus, that I had almost resolved
to kill him, as not able to bear his mischievous disposition. He was
therefore much afraid of me, lest at length my passion should come to
extremity; so he went to the king, as supposing that he would dwell
better and more safely with him.

71. Now, when the people of Sepphoris had, in so surprising a manner,
escaped their first danger, they sent to Cestius Gallus, and desired him
to come to them immediately, and take possession of their city, or else
to send forces sufficient to repress all their enemies' incursions
upon them; and at the last they did prevail with Gallus to send them a
considerable army, both of horse and foot, which came in the night time,
and which they admitted into the city. But when the country round about
it was harassed by the Roman army, I took those soldiers that were about
me, and came to Garisme, where I cast up a bank, a good way off the city
Sepphoris; and when I was at twenty furlongs distance, I came upon it by
night, and made an assault upon its walls with my forces; and when I had
ordered a considerable number of my soldiers to scale them with ladders,
I became master of the greatest part of the city. But soon after, our
unacquaintedness with the places forced us to retire, after we had
killed twelve of the Roman footmen, and two horsemen, and a few of the
people of Sepphoris, with the loss of only a single man of our own. And
when it afterwards came to a battle in the plain against th