provoked us to fight; and as we did not refuse it, but came into
the plain, their horsemen appeared out of that ambush in which
they had lain, and put our men into disorder, and made them run
away; so they slew six men of our side. Yet did they not go off
with the victory at last; for when they heard that some armed men
were sailed from Taricheae to Juli, they were afraid, and
retired.

74. It was not now long before Vespasian came to Tyre, and king
Agrippa with him; but the Tyrians began to speak reproachfully of
the king, and called him an enemy to the Romans. For they said
that Philip, the general of his army, had betrayed the royal
palace and the Roman forces that were in Jerusalem, and that it
was done by his command. When Vespasian heard of this report, he
rebuked the Tyrians for abusing a man who was both a king and a
friend to the Romans; but he exhorted the king to send Philip to
Rome, to answer for what he had done before Nero. But when Philip
was sent thither, he did not come into the sight of Nero, for he
found him very near death, on account of the troubles that then
happened, and a civil war; and so he returned to the king. But
when Vespasian was come to Ptolemais, the chief men of Decapolis
of Syria made a clamor against Justus of Tiberias, because he had
set their villages on fire: so Vespasian delivered him to the
king, to he put to death by those under the king's jurisdiction;
yet did the king only put him into bonds, and concealed what he
had done from Vespasian, as I have before related. But the people
of Sepphoris met Vespasian, and saluted him, and had forces sent
him, with Placidus their commander: he also went up with them, as
I also followed them, till Vespasian came into Galilee. As to
which coming of his, and after what manner it was ordered, and