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GAIUS CESTIUS GALLUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAIUS See also:CESTIUS See also:GALLUS  , See also:governor of See also:Syria during the reign of See also:Nero . When the See also:Jews in See also:Jerusalem, stirred to revolt by the outrages of the See also:Roman procurators, had seized the fortress of Masada and treacherously murdered the See also:garrison of the See also:palace of See also:Herod, See also:Gallus set out from See also:Antioch to restore See also:order . On the 17th of See also:November A.D . 66 he arrived before Jerusalem . Having gained See also:possession of the See also:northern suburb, he attacked the See also:temple See also:mount; but, after five days' fighting, just when (according to See also:Josephus) success was within his grasp, he unaccountably with-See also:drew his forces . During his See also:retreat he was closely pursued by the Jews and surrounded in a See also:ravine, and only succeeded in making See also:good his See also:escape to Antioch by sacrificing the greater See also:part of his See also:army and a large amount of See also:war material . Soon after his return Gallus died (before the See also:spring of 67), and was succeeded in the governorship by See also:Licinius See also:Mucianus, the See also:prosecution of the war being entrusted to See also:Vespasian . See See also:Tacitus, Hist. v. lo, 13; Suetonius, Vespasian, 4; Josephus, See also:Bell . See also:Jud. ii . 14-20; E . Scharer, Hist. of the Jewish See also:People, div. i. vol. ii. p . 212 (Eng. tr., 1890) .

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