ight that was about the capitol;
as also how Antonius Primus and Mucianus slew Vitellius, and his German
legions, and thereby put an end to that civil war; I have omitted to
give an exact account of them, because they are well known by all, and
they are described by a great number of Greek and Roman authors; yet
for the sake of the connexion of matters, and that my history may not
be incoherent, I have just touched upon every thing briefly. Wherefore
Vespasian put off at first his expedition against Jerusalem, and stood
waiting whither the empire would be transferred after the death of
Nero. Moreover, when he heard that Galba was made emperor, he attempted
nothing till he also should send him some directions about the war:
however, he sent his son Titus to him, to salute him, and to receive his
commands about the Jews. Upon the very same errand did king Agrippa sail
along with Titus to Galba; but as they were sailing in their long ships
by the coasts of Achaia, for it was winter time, they heard that Galba
was slain, before they could get to him, after he had reigned seven
months and as many days. After whom Otho took the government, and
undertook the management of public affairs. So Agrippa resolved to go on
to Rome without any terror; on account of the change in the government;
but Titus, by a Divine impulse, sailed back from Greece to Syria, and
came in great haste to Cesarea, to his father. And now they were both
in suspense about the public affairs, the Roman empire being then in a
fluctuating condition, and did not go on with their expedition against
the Jews, but thought that to make any attack upon foreigners was now
unseasonable, on account of the solicitude they were in for their own
country.

3. And now there arose another war at Jerusalem. There was a son of
Giora, one Simon, by birth of Gerasa, a young man, not so cunning
indeed as John [of Gisehala], who had already seized upon the city, but
superior in strength of body and courage; on which account, when he had
been driven away from that Acrabattene toparchy, which he once had, by
Ananus the high priest, he came to those robbers who had seized upon
Masada. At the first they suspected him, and only permitted him to come
with the women he brought with him into the lower part of the fortress,
while they dwelt in the upper part of it themselves. However, his manner
so well agreed with theirs, and he seemed so trusty a man, that he went
out with them, and rava