Famine and Desertion
For all this emotional appeal by Josephus, the insurgents would not budge, and thought it far from safe to change their course. The people, though, took it as a spur to desertion. Some sold their entire property at rock-bottom prices, others just their most valuable treasures, and then, to evade any search by the terrorists, they would swallow the…
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