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CESENNIUS GALLUS, or Gallus only, according to the Greek, Commander of the twelfth Legion of the Roman Army in Syria, was sent by Cestius to reduce Galilee1. He took Sephoris, and several other places, and defeated a great Body of the Jews, who had intrenched themselves on mount Azamon in Galilee.
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See Joseph. Antiq. l. xx. c. 9. p. 702. ↩
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