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Now at the time when this great concussion of affairs happened, the
affairs of the Romans were themselves in great disorder. Those Jews also
who were for innovations, then arose when the times were disturbed; they
were also in a flourishing condition for strength and riches, insomuch
that the affairs of the East were then exceeding tumultuous, while some
hoped for gain, and others were afraid of loss in such troubles; for the
Jews hoped that all of their nation which were beyond Euphrates would have
raised an insurrection together with them. The Gauls also, in the neighborhood
of the Romans, were in motion, and the Geltin were not quiet; but all was
in disorder after the death of Nero. And the opportunity now offered induced
many to aim at the royal power; and the soldiery affected change, out of
the hopes of getting money. I thought it therefore an absurd thing to see
the truth falsified in affairs of such great consequence, and to take no
notice of it; but to suffer those Greeks and Romans that were not in the
wars to be ignorant of these things, and to read either flatteries or fictions,
while the Parthians, and the Babylonians, and the remotest Arabians, and
those of our nation beyond Euphrates, with the Adiabeni, by my means, knew
accurately both whence the war begun, what miseries it brought upon us,
and after what manner it ended.
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