m, and paid that respect to the eceased as not to introduce
Marcus, who had been at variance with him, into his kingdom. But he
determined, in the first place, to send orders to Fadus, that he should
chastise the inhabitants of Caesarea and Sebaste for those abuses they
had offered to him that was deceased, and their madness towards his
daughters that were still alive; and that he should remove that body of
soldiers that were at Cesarea and Sebaste, with the five regiments, into
Pontus, that they might do their military duty there; and that he should
choose an equal number of soldiers out of the Roman legions that were
in Syria, to supply their place. Yet were not those that had such orders
actually removed; for by sending ambassadors to Claudius, they mollified
him, and got leave to abide in Judea still; and these were the very
men that became the source of very great calamities to the Jews in
after-times, and sowed the seeds of that war which began under Florus;
whence it was that when Vespasian had subdued the country, he removed
them out of his province, as we shall relate hereafter.

BOOK XX. Containing The Interval Of Twenty-Two Years.

From Fadus The Procurator To Florus.

CHAPTER 1. A Sedition Of The Philadelphians Against The Jews; And Also
Concerning The Vestments Of The High Priest.

1. Upon the death of king Agrippa, which we have related in the
foregoing book, Claudius Caesar sent Cassius Longinus as successor
to Marcus, out of regard to the memory of king Agrippa, who had often
desired of him by letters, while he was alive, that he would not suffer
Marcus to be any longer president of Syria. But Fadus, as soon as he was
come procurator into Judea, found quarrelsome doings between the
Jews that dwelt in Perea, and the people of Philadelphia, about their
borders, at a village called Mia, that was filled with men of a warlike
temper; for the Jews of Perea had taken up arms without the consent of
their principal men, and had destroyed many of the Philadelphians. When
Fadus was informed of this procedure, it provoked him very much that
they had not left the determination of the matter to him, if they
thought that the Philadelphians had done them any wrong, but had rashly
taken up arms against them. So he seized upon three of their principal
men, who were also the causes of this sedition, and ordered them to be
bound, and afterwards had one of them slain, whose name was Hannibal;
and he banished the o