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Caius should declare in favour of the Alexandrians, what other town would let
the Jews live in quiet? What other town would forbear them? What other
would not destroy their oratories ? What other would not refuse them the exercise
of their religion ? So that the abolition of all their priviledges, and the entire
ruine of the who nation were before us, and the thoughts of them overwhelmed
us with sorrow; and the more, because we could see no resort nor refuge from
our miseries : for those who before seemed to favour our affairs, began now to
despair of our safety, and retired not daring to assist us any farther, though we
sent to importune them; so little expectation had they of bounty or justice from
a man, who would make himself a god1.”

‘ “The Embassy of the Jews to the
Emperor Caius Caligula, related by
Philo Judaeus, one of the Ambassadors,
with a Letter from King Agrippa to

the Emperor, entreating his forbear-
ance to the Jews,” chap. xi. pp. 841,
842 ; chap, xviii. pp. 852—854.