gently
kept in our camp, they by night placed a body of horsemen in ambush
beyond Jordan, and when it was day they provoked us to fight; and as we
did not refuse it, but came into the plain, their horsemen appeared out
of that ambush in which they had lain, and put our men into disorder,
and made them run away; so they slew six men of our side. Yet did they
not go off with the victory at last; for when they heard that some armed
men were sailed from Taricheae to Juli, they were afraid, and retired.

74. It was not now long before Vespasian came to Tyre, and king Agrippa
with him; but the Tyrians began to speak reproachfully of the king,
and called him an enemy to the Romans. For they said that Philip, the
general of his army, had betrayed the royal palace and the Roman forces
that were in Jerusalem, and that it was done by his command. When
Vespasian heard of this report, he rebuked the Tyrians for abusing a man
who was both a king and a friend to the Romans; but he exhorted the king
to send Philip to Rome, to answer for what he had done before Nero. But
when Philip was sent thither, he did not come into the sight of Nero,
for he found him very near death, on account of the troubles that then
happened, and a civil war; and so he returned to the king. But when
Vespasian was come to Ptolemais, the chief men of Decapolis of Syria
made a clamor against Justus of Tiberias, because he had set their
villages on fire: so Vespasian delivered him to the king, to be put to
death by those under the king's jurisdiction; yet did the king only put
him into bonds, and concealed what he had done from Vespasian, as I have
before related. But the people of Sepphoris met Vespasian, and saluted
him, and had forces sent him, with Placidus their commander: he also
went up with them, as I also followed them, till Vespasian came into
Galilee. As to which coming of his, and after what manner it was
ordered, and how he fought his first battle with me near the village
Taricheae, and how from thence they went to Jotapata, and how I was
taken alive, and bound, and how I was afterward loosed, with all that
was done by me in the Jewish war, and during the siege of Jerusalem,
I have accurately related them in the books concerning the War of the
Jews. However, it will, I think, be fit for me to add now an account of
those actions of my life which I have not related in that book of the
Jewish war.

75. For when the siege of Jotapata was over, and I was