who were the authors of the revolt; and when they told me who the
men were, I sent them bound to the city Jotapata. But as to
Jonathan and Ananias, I freed them from their bonds, and gave
them provisions for their journey, together with Simon and
Joazar, and five hundred armed men who should guard them; and so
I sent them to Jerusalem. The people of Tiberias also came to me
again, and desired that I would forgive them for what they had
done; and they said they would amend what they had done amiss
with regard to me, by their fidelity for the time to come; and
they besought me to preserve what spoils remained upon the
plunder of the city, for those that had lost them. Accordingly, I
enjoined those that had got them, to bring them all before us;
and when they did not comply for a great while, and I saw one of
the soldiers that were about me with a garment on that was more
splendid than ordinary, I asked him whence he had it; and when he
replied that he had it out of the plunder of the city, I had him
punished with stripes; and I threatened all the rest to inflict a
severer punishment upon them, unless they produced before us
whatsoever they had plundered; and when a great many spoils were
brought together, I restored to every one of Tiberias what they
claimed to be their own.

65. And now I am come to this part of my narration, I have a mind
to say a few things to Justus, who hath himself written a history
concerning these affairs, as also to others who profess to write
history, but have little regard to truth, and are not afraid,
either out of ill-will or good-will to some persons, to relate
falsehoods. These men do like those who compose forged deeds and
conveyances; and because they are not brought to the like
punishment with them, they have no regard to truth. When,