the wall of Jerusalem, and, like wild beasts when they are
wounded, and cannot overtake those that wounded them, he vented his
spleen upon all persons that he met with. Accordingly, he caught all
those that were come out of the city gates, either to gather herbs
or sticks, who were unarmed and in years; he then tormented them and
destroyed them, out of the immense rage he was in, and was almost ready
to taste the very flesh of their dead bodies. He also cut off the hands
of a great many, and sent them into the city to astonish his enemies,
and in order to make the people fall into a sedition, and desert those
that had been the authors of his wife's seizure. He also enjoined them
to tell the people that Simon swore by the God of the universe, who sees
all things, that unless they will restore him his wife, he will break
down their wall, and inflict the like punishment upon all the citizens,
without sparing any age, and without making any distinction between the
guilty and the innocent. These threatenings so greatly affrighted, not
the people only, but the zealots themselves also, that they sent his
wife back to him; when he became a little milder, and left off his
perpetual blood-shedding.

9. But now sedition and civil war prevailed, not only over Judea, but
in Italy also; for now Galba was slain in the midst of the Roman
market-place; then was Otho made emperor, and fought against Vitellius,
who set up for emperor also; for the legions in Germany had chosen him.
But when he gave battle to Valens and Cecinna, who were Vitellius's
generals, at Betriacum, in Gaul, Otho gained the advantage on the first
day, but on the second day Vitellius's soldiers had the victory; and
after much slaughter Otho slew himself, when he had heard of this defeat
at Brixia, and after he had managed the public affairs three months and
two days. [18] Otho's army also came over to Vitellius's generals,
and he came himself down to Rome with his army. But in the mean time
Vespasian removed from Cesarea, on the fifth day of the month Deasius,
[Sivan,] and marched against those places of Judea which were not yet
overthrown. So he went up to the mountainous country, and took those two
toparchies that were called the Gophnitick and Acrabattene toparchies.
After which he took Bethel and Ephraim, two small cities; and when he
had put garrisons into them, he rode as far as Jerusalem, in which march
he took many prisoners, and many captives; but Cerealis, o