34. And by this stratagem it was that I gradually got all the
senate of Tiberias into my power, and sent them to the city
forementioned, with many of the principal men among the populace,
and those not fewer in number than the other. But when the
multitude saw into what great miseries they had brought
themselves, they desired me to punish the author of this
sedition: his name was Clitus, a young man, bold and rash in his
undertakings. Now, since I thought it not agreeable to piety to
put one of my own people to death, and yet found it necessary to
punish him, I ordered Levi, one of my own guards, to go to him,
and cut off one of Clitus's hands; but as he that was ordered to
do this, was afraid to go out of the ship alone, among 'so great
a multitude, I was not willing that the timorousness of the
soldier should appear to the people of Tiberias. So I called to
Clitus himself and said to him," Since thou deservest to lose
both thine hands for thy ingratitude to me, be thou thine own
executioner, lest, if thou refusest so to be, thou undergo a
worse punishment." And when he earnestly begged of me to spare
him one of his hands, it was with difficulty that I granted it.
So, in order to prevent the loss of both his hands, he willingly
took his sword, and cut off his own left hand; and this put an
end to the sedition.

35. Now the men of Tiberias, after I was gone to Taricheae,
perceived what stratagem I had used against them, and they
admired how I had put an end to their foolish sedition, without
shedding of blood. But now, when I had sent for some of those
multitudes of the people of Tiberias out of prison, among whom
were Justus and his father Pistus, I made them to sup with me;