THE

WORKS

OF

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS,

THE LEARNED AND AUTHENTIC JEWISH HISTORIAN AND CELEBRATED WARRIOR.

VOL. IV.

THE LEARNED AND AUTHENTIC JEWISH HISTORIAN

AND CELEBRATED WARRIOR.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

THREE DISSERTATIONS

CONCERNING

1

JESUS CHRIST, JOHN THE BAPTIST, JAMES THE JUSŤ,

GOD'S COMMAND TO ABRAHAM, &c.

WITH

AN INDEX TO THE WHOLE, AND COPPERPLATES.

TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM WHISTON, A. M.
PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

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LONDON:

Printed for Lackington, Allen & Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme; Vernor,

Hood & Sharpe; Cuthell & Martin; James Nunn, and Samuel Bagster.

1806.

Containing the Interval of about one Year. From Vespasian's coming to subdue the Jews, to the taking of Gamala.

CHAP. I.

Vespasian is sent into Syria by Nero, in order to make war with the Jews.

§ 1. WHEN Nero was informed of the Romans' ill success in Judea, a concealed consternation and terror, as is usual in such cases, fell upon him; although he openly looked very big, and was very angry, and said, that what had happened was rather owing to the negligence of the commander, than to any valour of the enemy: and as he thought it fit for him, who bare the burden of the whole empire, to despise such misfortunes, he now pretended so to do, and to have a soul superior to all such sad accidents whatsoever. Yet did the disturbance that was in his soul plainly appear by the solicitude he was in [how to recover his affairs again]. A.

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2. And