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Nay, indeed, Tiberias had like to have been plundered by the Galileans
also upon the following occasion: - The chief men of the senate wrote to
the king, and desired that he would come to them, and take possession of
their city. The king promised to come, and wrote a letter in answer to
theirs, and gave it to one of his bed-chamber, whose name was Crispus,
and who was by birth a Jew, to carry it to Tiberias. When the Galileans
knew that this man carried such a letter, they caught him, and brought
him to me; but as soon as the whole multitude heard of it, they were enraged,
and betook themselves to their arms. So a great many of them together from
all quarters the next day, and came to the city Asochis, where I then lodged,
and made heavy clamors, and called the city of Tiberias a traitor to them,
and a friend to the king; and desired leave of me to go down and utterly
destroy it; for they bore the like ill-will to the people of Tiberias,
as they did to those of Sepphoris.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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