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And now it was that Josephus perceived that the city could not hold
out long, and that his own life would be in doubt if he continued in it;
so he consulted how he and the most potent men of the city might fly out
of it. When the multitude understood this, they came all round about him,
and begged of him not to overlook them while they entirely depended on
him, and him alone; for that there was still hope of the city's deliverance,
if he would stay with them, because every body would undertake any pains
with great cheerfulness on his account, and in that case there would be
some comfort for them also, though they should be taken: that it became
him neither to fly from his enemies, nor to desert his friends, nor to
leap out of that city, as out of a ship that was sinking in a storm, into
which he came when it was quiet and in a calm; for that by going away he
would be the cause of drowning the city, because nobody would then venture
to oppose the enemy when he was once gone, upon whom they wholly confided.
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