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Now the way of living of the people of Seleucia, which were Greeks
and Syrians, was commonly quarrelsome, and full of discords, though the
Greeks were too hard for the Syrians. When, therefore, the Jews were come
thither, and dwelt among them, there arose a sedition, and the Syrians
were too hard for the other, by the assistance of the Jews, who are men
that despise dangers, and very ready to fight upon any occasion. Now when
the Greeks had the worst in this sedition, and saw that they had but one
way of recovering their former authority, and that was, if they could prevent
the agreement between the Jews and the Syrians, they every one discoursed
with such of the Syrians as were formerly their acquaintance, and promised
they would be at peace and friendship with them. Accordingly, they gladly
agreed so to do; and when this was done by the principal men of both nations,
they soon agreed to a reconciliation; and when they were so agreed, they
both knew that the great design of such their union would be their common
hatred to the Jews. Accordingly, they fell upon them, and slew about fifty
thousand of them; nay, the Jews were all destroyed, excepting a few who
escaped, either by the compassion which their friends or neighbors afforded
them, in order to let them fly away. These retired to Ctesiphon, a Grecian
city, and situate near to Seleucia, where the king [of Parthia] lives in
winter every year, and where the greatest part of his riches are reposited;
but the Jews had here no certain settlement, those of Seleucia having little
concern for the king's honor. Now the whole nation of the Jews were in
fear both of the Babylonians and of the Seleucians, because all the Syrians
that live in those places agreed with the Seleucians in the war against
the Jews; so the most of them gathered themselves together, and went to
Neerda and Nisibis, and obtained security there by the strength of those
cities; besides which their inhabitants, who were a great many, were all
warlike men. And this was the state of the Jews at this time in Babylonia.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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