so great a multitude, I was not willing
that the timorousness of the soldier should appear to the people of
Tiberias. So I called to Clitus himself and said to him, "Since thou
deservest to lose both thine hands for thy ingratitude to me, be thou
thine own executioner, lest, if thou refusest so to be, thou undergo a
worse punishment." And when he earnestly begged of me to spare him one
of his hands, it was with difficulty that I granted it. So, in order to
prevent the loss of both his hands, he willingly took his sword, and cut
off his own left hand; and this put an end to the sedition.

35. Now the men of Tiberias, after I was gone to Taricheae, perceived
what stratagem I had used against them, and they admired how I had put
an end to their foolish sedition, without shedding of blood. But now,
when I had sent for some of those multitudes of the people of Tiberias
out of prison, among whom were Justus and his father Pistus, I made them
to sup with me; and during our supper time I said to them, that I knew
the power of the Romans was superior to all others, but did not say so
[publicly] because of the robbers. So I advised them to do as I did, and
to wait for a proper opportunity, and not to be uneasy at my being their
commander; for that they could not expect to have another who would use
the like moderation that I had done. I also put Justus in mind how
the Galileans had cut off his brother's hands before ever I came to
Jerusalem, upon an accusation laid against him, as if he had been a
rogue, and had forged some letters; as also how the people of Gamala, in
a sedition they raised against the Babylonians, after the departure of
Philip, slew Chares, who was a kinsman of Philip, and withal how they
had wisely punished Jesus, his brother Justuses sister's husband [with
death]. When I had said this to them during supper time, I in the
morning ordered Justus, and all the rest that were in prison, to be
loosed out of it, and sent away.

36. But before this, it happened that Philip, the son of Jacimus, went
out of the citadel of Gamala upon the following occasion: When Philip
had been informed that Varus was put out of his government by king
Agrippa, and that Equieulus Modius, a man that was of old his friend and
companion, was come to succeed him, he wrote to him, and related what
turns of fortune he had had, and desired him to forward the letters he
sent to the king and queen. Now, when Modius had received these letters,
h