76. But when Titus had composed the troubles in Judea, and conjectured
that the lands which I had in Judea would bring me no profit, because a
garrison to guard the country was afterward to pitch there, he gave me
another country in the plain. And when he was going away to Rome, he
made choice of me to sail along with him, and paid me great respect: and
when we were come to Rome, I had great care taken of me by Vespasian;
for he gave me an apartment in his own house, which he lived in before
he came to the empire. He also honored me with the privilege of a Roman
citizen, and gave me an annual pension; and continued to respect me to
the end of his life, without any abatement of his kindness to me; which
very thing made me envied, and brought me into danger; for a certain
Jew, whose name was Jonathan, who had raised a tumult in Cyrene, and
had persuaded two thousand men of that country to join with him, was the
occasion of their ruin. But when he was bound by the governor of that
country, and sent to the emperor, he told him that I had sent him both
weapons and money. However, he could not conceal his being a liar from
Vespasian, who condemned him to die; according to which sentence he was
put to death. Nay, after that, when those that envied my good fortune
did frequently bring accusations against me, by God's providence I
escaped them all. I also received from Vespasian no small quantity of
land, as a free gift, in Judea; about which time I divorced my wife
also, as not pleased with her behavior, though not till she had been
the mother of three children, two of whom are dead, and one whom I named
Hyrcanus, is alive. After this I married a wife who had lived at Crete,
but a Jewess by birth: a woman she was of eminent parents, and such as
were the most illustrious in all the country, and whose character was
beyond that of most other women, as her future life did demonstrate. By
her I had two sons; the elder's name was Justus, and the next Simonides,
who was also named Agrippa. And these were the circumstances of my
domestic affairs. However, the kindness of the emperor to me continued
still the same; for when Vespasian was dead, Titus, who succeeded him
in the government, kept up the same respect for me which I had from his
father; and when I had frequent accusations laid against me, he would
not believe them. And Domitian, who succeeded, still augmented his
respects to me; for he punished those Jews that were my accusers