of their city, or else to send forces sufficient to repress all
their enemies' incursions upon them; and at the last they did
prevail with Gallus to send them a considerable army, both of
horse and foot, which came in the night time, and which they
admitted into the city. But when the country round about it was
harassed by the Roman army, I took those soldiers that were about
me, and came to Garisme, where I cast up a bank, a good way off
the city Sepphoris; and when I was at twenty furlongs distance, I
came upon it by night, and made an assault upon its walls with my
forces; and when I had ordered a considerable number of my
soldiers to scale them with ladders, I became master of the
greatest part of the city. But soon after, our unacquaintedness
with the places forced us to retire, after we had killed twelve
of the Roman footmen, and two horsemen, and a few of the people
of Sepphoris, with the loss of only a single man of our own. And
when it afterwards came to a battle in the plain against the
horsemen, and we had undergone the dangers of it courageously for
a long time, we were beaten; for upon the Romans encompassing me
about, my soldiers were afraid, and fell back. There fell in that
battle one of those that had been intrusted to guard my body; his
name was Justus, who at this time had the same post with the
king. At the same time also there came forces, both horsemen and
footmen, from the king, and Sylla their commander, who was the
captain of his guard: this Sylla pitched his camp at five
furlongs' distance from Julias, and set a guard upon the roads,
both that which led to Cana, and that which led to the fortress
Gamala, that he might hinder their inhabitants from getting
provisions out of Galilee.

72. As soon as I had gotten intelligence of this, I sent two