Romans, and because they had given their right hand, and made a
league with Cestius Gallus, the president of Syria. But I
delivered them all out of the fear they were in, and persuaded
the multitude to deal kindly with them, and permitted them to
send to those that were their own hostages with Gessius to Dora,
which is a city of Phoenicia, as often as they pleased; though I
still found the inhabitants of Tiberias ready to take arms, and
that on the occasion following: -

9. There were three factions in this city. The first was composed
of men of worth and gravity; of these Julius Capellus was the
head. Now he, as well as all his companions, Herod the son of
Miarus, and Herod the son of Gamalus, and Compsus the son of
Compsus; (for as to Compsus's brother Crispus, who had once been
governor of the city under the great king [Agrippa] (8) he was
beyond Jordan in his own possessions;) all these persons before
named gave their advice, that the city should then continue in
their allegiance to the Romans and to the king. But Pistus, who
was guided by his son Justus, did not acquiesce in that
resolution; otherwise he was himself naturally of a good and
virtuous character. But the second faction was composed of the
most ignoble persons, and was determined for war. But as for
Justus, the son of Pistus, who was the head of the third faction,
although he pretended to be doubtful about going to war, yet was
he really desirous of innovation, as supposing that he should
gain power to himself by the change of affairs. He therefore came
into the midst of them, and endeavored to inform the multitude
that "the city Tiberius had ever been a city of Galilee, and that
in the days of Herod the tetrarch, who had built it, it had
obtained the principal place, and that he had ordered that the