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And now Cestius himself marched from Ptolemais, and came to Cesarea;
but he sent part of his army before him to Joppa, and gave order, that
if they could take that city [by surprise] they should keep it; but that
in case the citizens should perceive they were coming to attack them, that
they then should stay for him, and for the rest of the army. So some of
them made a brisk march by the sea-side, and some by land, and so coming
upon them on both sides, they took the city with ease; and as the inhabitants
had made no provision beforehand for a flight, nor had gotten any thing
ready for fighting, the soldiers fell upon them, and slew them all, with
their families, and then plundered and burnt the city. The number of the
slain was eight thousand four hundred. In like manner, Cestius sent also
a considerable body of horsemen to the toparchy of Narbatene, that adjoined
to Cesarea, who destroyed the country, and slew a great multitude of its
people; they also plundered what they had, and burnt their villages.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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