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The Jewish War of Flavius Joesphus; A New Translation
The Jewish War of Flavius Joesphus A New Translation Author:Flavius Josephus General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: Houlston and Stoneman Subjects: Jews History / Jewish History / Holocaust Juvenile Fiction / Religious / Jewish Religion / Judaism / General Religion / Judaism / History Social Science / Jewish Studies Notes: This is a black and white O... more »CR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BOOK III, CHAPTER I. 1. When Nero was informed of the disasters in Judaea, though seized with consternation and alarm -- suppressed however as was natural, he assumed, in public, a haughty and indignant air. Attributing what had occurred rather to the negligence of his general, than to the valour of the foe, he deemed it becoming in one who sustained the weight of the empire to treat misfortunes with stately contempt, and show himself possessed of a mind superior to every reverse. His mental perturbation, notwithstanding, was betrayed by his thoughtfulness. 2. Deliberating to whom he should confide the east, which was already in commotion, and whose task it should be at once to chastise the Jewish insurgents, and to impose a timely check on the surrounding nations, who were catching the contagion, Vespasian alone could he find adequate to the emergency, or able to support the burden of so vast an enterprise ; -- a man who from youth to age had spent his life in military service; who for the Romans had formerly pacified the west, when disturbed by the Germans; and to whose arms they owed the acquisition of Britain, hitherto unknown. This last was a conquest, on account of which his father Claudius, without any toil on his own part, had obtained a triumph. 3. Auguring favourably, therefore, from these facts, and seeing his years steadied by experience, and that, together with ...« less