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"But after a very little while the young men of Dor, preferring 

 daring to j)iety and being by nature boldly insolent, carried a statue 

 of Caesar into a synagogue of the Jews' and set it up. This act 

 provoked Agrippa exceedingly; for it tended toward the dissolution 

 of the laws of his nation. He therefore at once came before Pub- 

 lius Petronius, who was then at the head of Syria, and accused the 

 people of Dor. Nor did he less resent what had been done (than 

 did Agrippa). For he judged it an act of impiety to transgress 

 against lawful customs. So he angrily wrote the following to the 

 rulers of Dor: 'Publius Petronius, president under Tiberius Clau- 

 dius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, to the magistrates of the inhabi- 

 tants of Dor, says: Since some of you have displayed such bold 

 madness, after the edict of Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus 

 was issued, for permitting the Jews to observe their country's cus- 

 toms, not to obey the same ; but have done everything contrary to 

 it, in preventing the Jews from assembling in their synagogue by 

 removing Caesar's statue and setting it up therein, and have com- 

 mitted an outrage not only against the Jews but also against the 

 Emperor himself, whose statue was more fitly placed in his own 

 temple than in a foreign one (and this is in a place of assembly) ; 

 whereas it is but natural justice that every one should have rule 

 over the places that belong peculiarly to them, in accordance with 

 the determination of Caesar; not to speak of my own determina- 

 tion, which it would be ridiculous to mention after the Emperor's 



1 Cp. the command of Caligula to Petronius to set up his statue in the 

 temple (^?i^. XVIII, 8:2). 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XX. 6 1915. 



