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This message was delivered by Agrippa; to which the senate replied,
that since they had an army, and the wisest counsels on their side, they
would not endure a voluntary slavery. And when Claudius heard what answer
the senate had made, he sent Agrippa to them again, with the following
message: That he could not bear the thoughts of betraying them that had
given their oaths to be true to him; and that he saw he must fight, though
unwillingly, against such as he had no mind to fight; that, however, [if
it must come to that,] it was proper to choose a place without the city
for the war, because it was not agreeable to piety to pollute the temples
of their own city with the blood of their own countrymen, and this only
on occasion of their imprudent conduct. And when Agrippa had heard this
message, he delivered it to the senators.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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