(13) and told them that the Romans would not maintain so many ten
thousand soldiers, if they could overcome their enemies by
wizards. Upon my saying this, the people assented for a while;
but they returned again afterwards, as irritated by some ill
people against the great men; nay, they once made an assault upon
the house in which they dwelt at Tarichess, in order to kill
them; which, when I was informed of, I was afraid lest so horrid
a crime should take effect, and nobody else would make that city
their refuge any more. I therefore came myself, and some others
with me, to the house where these great men lived, and locked the
doors, and had a trench drawn from their house leading to the
lake, and sent for a ship, and embarked therein with them, and
sailed to the confines of Hippos: I also paid them the value of
their horses; nor in such a flight could I have their horses
brought to them. I then dismissed them, and begged of them
earnestly that they would courageously bear I this distress which
befell them. I was also myself I greatly displeased that I was
compelled to expose those that had fled to me to go again into an
enemy's country; yet did I think it more eligible that they
should perish among the Romans, if it should so happen, than in
the country that was under my jurisdiction. However, they escaped
at length, and king Agrippa forgave them their offenses. And this
was the conclusion of what concerned these men.

32. But as for the inhabitants of the city of Tiberias, they
wrote to the king, and desired him to send them forces sufficient
to be a guard to their country; for that they were desirous to
come over to him: this was what they wrote to him. But when I
came to them, they desired me to build their walls, as I had
promised them to do; for they had heard that the walls of