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For when the siege of Jotapata was over, and I was among the
Romans, I was kept with much Care, by means of the great respect
that Vespasian showed me. Moreover, at his command, I married a
virgin, who was from among the captives of that country yet
did she not live with me long, but was divorced, upon my being
freed from my bonds, and my going to Alexandria. However, I
married another wife at Alexandria, and was thence sent, together
with Titus, to the siege of Jerusalem, and was frequently in
danger of being put to death; while both the Jews were very
desirous to get me under their power, in order to haw me
punished. And the Romans also, whenever they were beaten,
supposed that it was occasioned by my treachery, and made
continual clamors to the emperors, and desired that they would
bring me to punishment, as a traitor to them: but Titus Caesar
was well acquainted with the uncertain fortune of war, and
returned no answer to the soldiers' vehement solicitations
against me. Moreover, when the city Jerusalem was taken by force,
Titus Caesar persuaded me frequently to take whatsoever I would
of the ruins of my country; and did that he gave me leave so to
do. But when my country was destroyed, I thought nothing else to
be of any value, which I could take and keep as a comfort under
my calamities; so I made this request to Titus, that my family
might have their liberty: I had also the holy books by
Titus's concession. Nor was it long after that I asked of him the
life of my brother, and of fifty friends with him, and was not
denied. When I also went once to the temple, by the permission of
Titus, where there were a great multitude of captive women and
children, I got all those that I remembered as among my own
friends and acquaintances to be set free, being in number about
one hundred and ninety; and so I delivered them without their
paying any price of redemption, and restored them to their former
fortune. And when I was sent by Titus Caesar with Cerealins, and
a thousand horsemen, to a certain village called Thecoa, in order
to know whether it were a place fit for a camp, as I came back, I
saw many captives crucified, and remembered three of them as my
former acquaintance. I was very sorry at this in my mind, and
went with tears in my eyes to Titus, and told him of them; so he
immediately commanded them to be taken down, and to have the
greatest care taken of them, in order to their recovery; yet two
of them died under the physician's hands, while the third
recovered.
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