arichee, on whom
I could best confide, at the gates, to watch those very carefully who
went out at those gates: I also called to me the heads of families, and
bade every one of them to seize upon a ship [14] to go on board it, and
to take a master with them, and follow him to the city of Tiberias. I
also myself went on board one of those ships, with my friends, and the
seven armed men already mentioned, and sailed for Tiberias.

33. But now, when the people of Tiberias perceived that there were no
forces come from the king, and yet saw the whole lake full of ships,
they were in fear what would become of their city, and were greatly
terrified, as supposing that the ships were full of men on board; so
they then changed their minds, and threw down their weapons, and met me
with their wives and children, and made acclamations to me with great
commendations; for they imagined that I did not know their former
inclinations [to have been against me]; so they persuaded me to spare
the city. But when I was come near enough, I gave order to the masters
of the ships to cast anchor a good way off the land, that the people of
Tiberias might not perceive that the ships had no men on board; but
I went nearer to the people in one of the ships, and rebuked them for
their folly, and that they were so fickle as, without any just occasion
in the world, to revolt from their fidelity to me. However, assured them
that I would entirely forgive them for the time to come, if they would
send ten of the ringleaders of the multitude to me; and when they
complied readily with this proposal, and sent me the men forementioned,
I put them on board a ship, and sent them away to Tarichese; and ordered
them to be kept in prison.

34. And by this stratagem it was that I gradually got all the senate of
Tiberias into my power, and sent them to the city forementioned, with
many of the principal men among the populace, and those not fewer
in number than the other. But when the multitude saw into what great
miseries they had brought themselves, they desired me to punish the
author of this sedition: his name was Clitus, a young man, bold and rash
in his undertakings. Now, since I thought it not agreeable to piety to
put one of my own people to death, and yet found it necessary to punish
him, I ordered Levi, one of my own guards, to go to him, and cut off one
of Clitus's hands; but as he that was ordered to do this, was afraid to
go out of the ship alone, among '