th the Samaritans, the rulers
of Jerusalem ran out clothed with sackcloth, and having ashes on their
head, and begged of them to go their ways, lest by their attempt to
revenge themselves upon the Samaritans they should provoke the Romans
to come against Jerusalem; to have compassion upon their country and
temple, their children and their wives, and not bring the utmost
dangers of destruction upon them, in order to avenge themselves upon one
Galilean only. The Jews complied with these persuasions of theirs, and
dispersed themselves; but still there were a great number who
betook themselves to robbing, in hopes of impunity; and rapines and
insurrections of the bolder sort happened over the whole country.
And the men of power among the Samaritans came to Tyre, to Ummidius
Quadratus, [15] the president of Syria, and desired that they that had
laid waste the country might be punished: the great men also of the
Jews, and Jonathan the son of Ananus the high priest, came thither,
and said that the Samaritans were the beginners of the disturbance, on
account of that murder they had committed; and that Cumanus had given
occasion to what had happened, by his unwillingness to punish the
original authors of that murder.

6. But Quadratus put both parties off for that time, and told them, that
when he should come to those places, he would make a diligent inquiry
after every circumstance. After which he went to Cesarea, and crucified
all those whom Cumanus had taken alive; and when from thence he was come
to the city Lydda, he heard the affair of the Samaritans, and sent for
eighteen of the Jews, whom he had learned to have been concerned in that
fight, and beheaded them; but he sent two others of those that were of
the greatest power among them, and both Jonathan and Ananias, the high
priests, as also Artanus the son of this Ananias, and certain others
that were eminent among the Jews, to Caesar; as he did in like manner
by the most illustrious of the Samaritans. He also ordered that Cureanus
[the procurator] and Celer the tribune should sail to Rome, in order to
give an account of what had been done to Caesar. When he had finished
these matters, he went up from Lydda to Jerusalem, and finding the
multitude celebrating their feast of unleavened bread without any
tumult, he returned to Antioch.

7. Now when Caesar at Rome had heard what Cumanus and the Samaritans
had to say, [where it was done in the hearing of Agrippa, who zealousl