| 74. It was not now long before Vespasian came to Tyre and king Agrippa with him; but the Tyrians began to speak reproachfully of the king and called him an enemy to the Romans. For they said that Philip, the general of his army, had betrayed the royal palace and the Roman forces that were in Jerusalem and that it was done by his command. When Vespasian heard of this report, he rebuked the Tyrians for abusing a man who was both a king and a friend to the Romans; but he exhorted the king to send Philip to Rome, to answer for what he had done before Nero. But when Philip was sent there, he did not come into the sight of Nero, for he found him very near death, on account of the troubles that then happened and a civil war; and so he returned to the king. But when Vespasian had arrived at Ptolemais, the chief men of Decapolis of Syria made a clamour against Justus of Tiberias, because he had set their villages on fire: so Vespasian delivered him to the king, to be put to death by those under the king's jurisdiction; yet did the king only put him into bonds and concealed what he had done from Vespasian, as I have before related. But the people of Sepphoris met Vespasian and saluted him and had forces sent to him with Placidus their commander; he also went up with them, as I also followed them, till Vespasian came into Galilee. | |