de Bell.Jud.ii.16.The number, however, is mentioned, and should be received with a degree of latitude.

Note: Without doubt no reliance can be placed on this passage of Josephus.

The historian makes Agrippa give advice to the Jews, as to the power of the Romans; and the speech is full of declamation which can furnish no conclusions to history.

While enumerating the nations subject to the Romans, he speaks of the Gauls as submitting to 1200 soldiers, (which is false, as there were eight legions in Gaul, Tac.iv.

5,) while there are nearly twelve hundred cities .-- G.