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1875, March 22, Haller Bonet,

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

C. Whittingham, Chiswick.

THE JEWISH WAR.

BOOK III.

CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF ABOUT ONE YEAR.

From Uespasian'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 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].

2. And as he was deliberating to whom he should commit the care of the east, now it was in so great a commotion, and who might be best able to punish the Jews for their rebellion, and might prevent the same distemper from seizing upon the neighbouring nations also; he found no one but Vespasian equal to the task, and able to undergo the great burden of so mighty a war, seeing he was grown an old man already in the camp, and from his youth had been exercised in warlike exploits; he was also a man that had long ago pacified the west, and made it subject to the Romans, when it had been put

VOL. IV.

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