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XXVI. Αὖθις δ’ ὁ Ἰώαηπος πλεῖστα δάα περὶ τῆς τὸ πᾶν Ἰουδαίων ἔθνος καταλαβούσης διελθὼν αυμφορᾶς, δηλοῖ κατὰ λέξιν ἐπὶ πλείστοις ἄλλοις μυρίους ὅσους τῶν παρὰ Ἰουδαίοις τετιμημένων μάατιξιν αἰκισθέντας ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ τετιμημένων ἀνααταυρωθῆναι ὑπὸ Φλώρου· τοῦτον δὲ εἶναι τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐπίτροπον, ὁπηνίκα τὴν ἄρχην ἀναρριπισθῆναι τοῦ πολέμου, ἔτους δωδεκάτου τῆς Νέρωνος ἡγεμονίας, αυνέβη. εἶτα δὲ καὶ καθ’ ὅλην τὴν Συρίαν ἔπι τῆ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἀποστάσει φησι κατειληφέναι ταραχήν, πανταχόσε τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους πρὸς τῶν κατὰ πόλιν ἐνοίκων ὡς ἂν πολεμίων ἀνηλεῶς πορθουμένων , ὤσατε ὁρᾶν τὰς πόλεις μεατὰς ἀτάφων σωμάτων καὶ νεκροὺς ἅμα νηπίοις γέροντας ἐρριμμένους γύναιά τε μηδὲ τῆς ἐπ’ αἰδῶ σκέπης καὶ πᾶααν μὲν τὴν ἐπαρχίαν μεοτὴν ἀδιηγήτων συμφορῶν, μείζονα δὲ τῶν ἑκάστοτε τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀπειλουμένοις ἀνάτααιν. ταῦτα κατὰ λέξιν ὁ Ἰώσηπος. καὶ τὰ μὲν κατὰ Ἰουδαίους ἐν τούτοις ἦν.
XXVI. Josephus, in the course of his extremely detailed description of the catastrophe which overcame the whole Jewish race, in addition to many other things, explains exactly how many thousand Jews of high rank in Jerusalem itself were outraged, scourged, and crucified by Florus, and that he was procurator of Judaea when it happened that the beginning of the war blazed up in the twelfth year of the reign of Nero. He next says that throughout Syria terrible disturbances followed the revolt of the Jews. Everywhere the Gentiles mercilessly attacked the Jews in the cities as though they were foes, so that the cities could be seen full of unburied bodies, thrown out dead, old men and children, and women without covering for their nakedness; the whole province was full of indescribable misery and the strain of the threats for the future was worse than the crimes of the present. This Josephus narrates, and such was the condition of the Jews.