JOTAPATA, GALILEE 12 JUNE 67 AD
Covered in dust and still wearing his armour, Titus entered the command tent, grinning. “The Fifteenth had the forward position today, guarding the catapults.”
“I know,” said Vespasian, not even glancing up from the abacus, which he"d been clicking back and forth for an hour, looking at logistics. “If you recall, I gave the order.”
They were nine days into this siege. The foolish Judeans had retreated to this walled city with their whole army, making a stand in what amounted to a death-trap. It was only a matter of time.
Titus" smile was undeterred. “I saw their general.”
That brought Vespasian"s head up. “Josephus?” Vespasian had trouble pronouncing Hebrew names, and had taken to Latinizing them. Thus "Yosef ben Matityahu" became "Josephus ben Matthais
