how he fought his first battle with me near the village
Taricheae, and how from thence they went to Jotapata, and how I
was taken alive, and bound, and how I was afterward loosed, with
all that was done by me in the Jewish war, and during the siege
of Jerusalem, I have accurately related them in the books
concerning the War of the Jews. However, it will, I think, he fit
for me to add now an account of those actions of my life which I
have not related in that book of the Jewish war.

75. For when the siege of Jotapata was over, and I was among the
Romans, I was kept with much Care, by means of the great respect
that Vespasian showed me. Moreover, at his command, I married a
virgin, who was from among the captives of that country (25) yet
did she not live with me long, but was divorced, upon my being
freed from my bonds, and my going to Alexandria. However, I
married another wife at Alexandria, and was thence sent, together
with Titus, to the siege of Jerusalem, and was frequently in
danger of being put to death; while both the Jews were very
desirous to get me under their power, in order to haw me
punished. And the Romans also, whenever they were beaten,
supposed that it was occasioned by my treachery, and made
continual clamors to the emperors, and desired that they would
bring me to punishment, as a traitor to them: but Titus Caesar
was well acquainted with the uncertain fortune of war, and
returned no answer to the soldiers' vehement solicitations
against me. Moreover, when the city Jerusalem was taken by force,
Titus Caesar persuaded me frequently to take whatsoever I would
of the ruins of my country; and did that he gave me leave so to
do. But when my country was destroyed, I thought nothing else to
be of any value, which I could take and keep as a comfort under