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WHEN Nero was informed of the Romans' ill success in Judea, a concealed
consternation and terror, as is usual in such cases, fell upon him; although
he openly looked very big, and was very angry, and said that what had happened
was rather owing to the negligence of the commander, than to any valor
of the enemy: and as he thought it fit for him, who bare the burden of
the whole empire, to despise such misfortunes, he now pretended so to do,
and to have a soul superior to all such sad accidents whatsoever. Yet did
the disturbance that was in his soul plainly appear by the solicitude he
was in [how to recover his affairs again].
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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