my calamities; so I made this request to Titus, that my family
might have their liberty: I had also the holy books (26) by
Titus's concession. Nor was it long after that I asked of him the
life of my brother, and of fifty friends with him, and was not
denied. When I also went once to the temple, by the permission of
Titus, where there were a great multitude of captive women and
children, I got all those that I remembered as among my own
friends and acquaintances to be set free, being in number about
one hundred and ninety; and so I delivered them without their
paying any price of redemption, and restored them to their former
fortune. And when I was sent by Titus Caesar with Cerealins, and
a thousand horsemen, to a certain village called Thecoa, in order
to know whether it were a place fit for a camp, as I came back, I
saw many captives crucified, and remembered three of them as my
former acquaintance. I was very sorry at this in my mind, and
went with tears in my eyes to Titus, and told him of them; so he
immediately commanded them to be taken down, and to have the
greatest care taken of them, in order to their recovery; yet two
of them died under the physician's hands, while the third
recovered.

76. But when Titus had composed the troubles in Judea, and
conjectured that the lands which I had in Judea would bring me no
profit, because a garrison to guard the country was afterward to
pitch there, he gave me another country in the plain. And when he
was going away to Rome, he made choice of me to sail along with
him, and paid me great respect: and when we were come to Rome, I
had great care taken of me by Vespasian; for he gave me an
apartment in his own house, which he lived in before he came to
the empire. He also honored me with the privilege of a Roman