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Now, as soon as the inhabitants of that city understood the
perfidiousness of the people of Tiberias, they were greatly
provoked at them. So they snatched up their arms, and desired me
to be their leader against them; for they said they would avenge
their commander's cause upon them. They also carried the report
of what had been done to me to all the Galileans, and eagerly
endeavored to irritate them against the people of Tiberias, and
desired that vast numbers of them would get together, and come to
them, that they might act in concert with their commander, what
should be determined as fit to be done. Accordingly, the
Galileans came to me in great numbers, from all parts, with their
weapons, and besought me to assault Tiberias, to take it by
force, and to demolish it, till it lay even with the ground, and
then to make slaves of its inhabitants, with their wives and
children. Those that were Josephus's friends also, and had
escaped out of Tiberias, gave him the same advice. But I did not
comply with them, thinking it a terrible thing to begin a civil
war among them; for I thought that this contention ought not to
proceed further than words; nay, I told them that it was not for
their own advantage to do what they would have me to do, while
the Romans expected no other than that we should destroy one
another by our mutual seditions. And by saying this, I put a stop
to the anger of the Galileans.
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