d having many ten thousands of cattle therein. When Philip
was informed of these things, he also came to the citadel of Gamala; and
when he was come, the multitude cried aloud, and desired him to resume
the government, and to make an expedition against Varus, and the Syrians
of Cesarea; for it was reported that they had slain the king. But Philip
restrained their zeal, and put them in mind of the benefits the king had
bestowed upon them; and told them how powerful the Romans were, and said
it was not for their advantage to make war with them; and at length he
prevailed with them. But now, when the king was acquainted with Varus's
design, which was to cut off the Jews of Caesarea, being many ten
thousands, with their wives and children, and all in one day, he called
to him Equiculus Modius, and sent him to be Varus's successor, as we
have elsewhere related. But still Philip kept possession of the citadel
of Gamala, and of the country adjoining to it, which thereby continued
in their allegiance to the Romans.

12. Now, as soon as I was come into Galilee, and had learned this state
of things by the information of such as told me of them, I wrote to the
sanhedrim at Jerusalem about them, and required their direction what I
should do. Their direction was, that I should continue there, and that,
if my fellow legates were willing, I should join with them in the care
of Galilee. But those my fellow legates, having gotten great riches from
those tithes which as priests were their dues, and were given to them,
determined to return to their own country. Yet when I desired them
to stay so long, that we might first settle the public affairs, they
complied with me. So I removed, together with them, from the city of
Sepphoris, and came to a certain village called Bethmaus, four furlongs
distant from Tiberius; and thence I sent messengers to the senate of
Tiberius, and desired that the principal men of the city would come to
me: and when they were come, Justus himself being also with them, I told
them that I was sent to them by the people of Jerusalem as a legate,
together with these other priests, in order to persuade them to demolish
that house which Herod the tetrarch had built there, and which had the
figures of living creatures in it, although our laws have forbidden us
to make any such figures; and I desired that they would give us leave so
to do immediately. But for a good while Capellus and the principal
men belonging to the cit