or all the innovators had
gotten together at Taricheae, as relying upon the strength of the city,
and on the lake that lay by it. This lake is called by the people of
the country the Lake of Gennesareth. The city itself is situated like
Tiberias, at the bottom of a mountain, and on those sides which are not
washed by the sea, had been strongly fortified by Josephus, though not
so strongly as Tiberias; for the wall of Tiberias had been built at the
beginning of the Jews' revolt, when he had great plenty of money, and
great power, but Tarichese partook only the remains of that liberality,
Yet had they a great number of ships gotten ready upon the lake, that,
in case they were beaten at land, they might retire to them; and they
were so fitted up, that they might undertake a Sea-fight also. But as
the Romans were building a wall about their camp, Jesu and his party
were neither affrighted at their number, nor at the good order they were
in, but made a sally upon them; and at the very first onset the builders
of the wall were dispersed; and these pulled what little they had before
built to pieces; but as soon as they saw the armed men getting together,
and before they had suffered any thing themselves, they retired to their
own men. But then the Romans pursued them, and drove them into their
ships, where they launched out as far as might give them the opportunity
of reaching the Romans with what they threw at them, and then cast
anchor, and brought their ships close, as in a line of battle, and
thence fought the enemy from the sea, who were themselves at land. But
Vespasian hearing that a great multitude of them were gotten together in
the plain that was before the city, he thereupon sent his son, with six
hundred chosen horsemen, to disperse them.

2. But when Titus perceived that the enemy was very numerous, he sent to
his father, and informed him that he should want more forces. But as
he saw a great many of the horsemen eager to fight, and that before any
succors could come to them, and that yet some of them were privately
under a sort of consternation at the multitude of the Jews, he stood in
a place whence he might be heard, and said to them, "My brave Romans!
for it is right for me to put you in mind of what nation you are, in the
beginning of my speech, that so you may not be ignorant who you are, and
who they are against whom we are going to fight. For as to us, Romans,
no part of the habitable earth hath been able t