The verb εὐλαβέομαι appears only here in War , though several times later in Josephus. This caution has been amply justified in the narrative by the events described at 2.437, 450-52; cf. the case of Cyprus in 2.484. This is the last of 3 uses of this adjective, all in close proximity, in War ; see the note at 2.437. This is a fateful moment, creating a strong center of Judean resistance (along with Masada) until its siege and capture in 72 CE by Lucilius Bassus: 7.190-209.