and in this case was he put out to those that sent him. At
which procedure of mine they were greatly affrighted, and in no small
consternation, and were afraid that they should themselves be served in
like manner, if they staid there; for they supposed that I had in
the house more armed men than they had themselves; so they ran away
immediately, while I, by the use of this stratagem, escaped this their
second treacherous design against me.

31. But there were still some that irritated the multitude against me,
and said that those great men that belonged to the king ought not to
be suffered to live, if they would not change their religion to the
religion of those to whom they fled for safety: they spake reproachfully
of them also, and said that they were wizards, and such as called in the
Romans upon them. So the multitude was soon deluded by such plausible
pretenses as were agreeable to their own inclinations, and were
prevailed on by them. But when I was informed of this, I instructed the
multitude again, that those who fled to them for refuge ought not to be
persecuted: I also laughed at the allegation about witchcraft, [13]
and told them that the Romans would not maintain so many ten thousand
soldiers, if they could overcome their enemies by wizards. Upon my
saying this, the people assented for a while; but they returned again
afterwards, as irritated by some ill people against the great men;
nay, they once made an assault upon the house in which they dwelt at
Tarichess, in order to kill them; which, when I was informed of, I was
afraid lest so horrid a crime should take effect, and nobody else would
make that city their refuge any more. I therefore came myself, and some
others with me, to the house where these great men lived, and locked the
doors, and had a trench drawn from their house leading to the lake,
and sent for a ship, and embarked therein with them, and sailed to the
confines of Hippos: I also paid them the value of their horses; nor
in such a flight could I have their horses brought to them. I
then dismissed them, and begged of them earnestly that they would
courageously bear I this distress which befell them. I was also myself I
greatly displeased that I was compelled to expose those that had fled to
me to go again into an enemy's country; yet did I think it more eligible
that they should perish among the Romans, if it should so happen, than
in the country that was under my jurisdiction. However, they e