It was customary among the Roman troops to honor the victorious general with a new title drawn from the name of the people subdued by him--Scipio _Africanus_ and Metellus _Creticus_ are cases in point--but when some of the soldiery proceeded further to salute Titus with the epithet “_Judaicus_,” he sternly forbade them to use an appellation that he knew would be a perpetual reminder to Berenice of the fall of her nation. Though the ordinary soldier was left to cure his wounds as best he might, with the aid of his sympathizing comrades, Titus himself was attended in this campaign by a Greek physician, whom he now sent to watch over Crispus, and great was the satisfaction throughout the camp when it became known that the state of the patient was such as to afford good ground for hope. A week later Titus, when paying a second visit to Crispus, dwelt again on the subject of Berenice. “No man,” said he, “would risk his life, as you did, in rescuing a damsel from a beleaguered city--you see I know the story--unless he were madly enamored of her. Since your heart is set, not upon Berenice but upon this Vashti, what is to prevent you from repudiating the one and taking the other?” “Firstly, I have not said that my heart _is_ set upon Vashti; secondly, even if it were so, my Christian creed forbids me acting in the way your prescribe. With Christians marriage is a perpetual obligation.” “Crispus, don’t deny it; you love this Vashti, and yet you are going to allow your foolish religion--for such must I call it--to stand in the way of your desires. But I doubt whether you fully understand your own creed. I have been conversing with some of your faith, for it appears that you are not the only Christian in our army, and their saying is that if a wife takes a lover, her husband is justified in obtaining a divorce. It is Berenice’s intention,” added Titus significantly, “to supply you with the grounds for one.” In his pagan days Crispus would have readily availed himself of this way of escaping from a union that was hateful to him, but being no longer a pagan, he would not consent to Berenice’s doing evil that thereby good might come to him. “Cæsar,” said he, “I will be no party to this scheme, which I look upon as an infamous one. Nay, more; if you so act, I will have justice upon you. Forget not the oath of your sire, Vespasian, that he would hang the man who takes my wife from me, though that man were his own son. Do this thing, and I will accuse you at the foot of the imperial throne, and demand that he keep his word.” Titus laughed pleasantly. “I’ll take the risk,” said he. And with that he withdrew, bent on fulfilling his purpose, as Crispus was equally bent on fulfilling his. Among others that visited Crispus during his illness was Josephus, who, as intending to write a history of the war, was naturally desirous of obtaining all the information he could respecting the burning of the temple.