to him; and when he was come, he saluted him very obligingly, and
showed him to the Roman commanders, and told them that this was
the man of whom the report had gone about as if he had revolted
from the Romans. He also bid him to take some horsemen with him,
and to go quickly to the citadel of Gamala, and to bring out
thence all his domestics, and to restore the Babylonians to
Batanea again. He also gave it him in charge to take all possible
care that none of his subjects should be guilty of making any
innovation. Accordingly, upon these directions from the king, he
made haste to do what he was commanded.

37. Now there was one Joseph, the son of a female physician, who
excited a great many young men to join with him. He also
insolently addressed himself to the principal persons at Gamala,
and persuaded them to revolt from the king; and take up arms, and
gave them hopes that they should, by his means, recover their
liberty. And some they forced into the service, and those that
would not acquiesce in what they had resolved on, they slew. They
also slew Chares, and with him Jesus, one of his kinsmen, and a
brother of Justus of Tiberias, as we have already said. Those of
Gamala also wrote to me, desiring me to send them an armed force,
and workmen to raise up the walls of their city; nor did I reject
either of their requests. The region of Gaulanitis did also
revolt from the king, as far as the village Solyma. I also built
a wall about Seleucia and Soganni, which are villages naturally
of ver great strength. Moreover, I, in like manner, walled
several villages of Upper Galilee, though they were very rocky of
themselves. Their names are Jamnia, and Meroth, and Achabare. I
also fortified, in the Lower Galilee, the cities Tarichee,
Tiberias, Sepphoris, and the villages, the cave of Arbela,