b Cassius Severus the outstanding orator, who had mocked the Quintian Proverb, dies of starvation in the 25th year of his exile, covered with hardly a rag over his privates. 1 *
a Many Roman Senators and Knights killed.
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c Pilate, after the aforementioned uprising which had been incited on account of Caesar's images, laid the seeds for a second uprising when he spent the sacred treasury, which the Jews call the korban, on an aqueduct for Jerusalem. b Tiberius dies in Campania. 6 (*)
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20 20 33 4th of the Romans, Gaius Caligula reigned for 3 years and 10 months.
1 c Gaius Caesar, called Caligula, makes Agrippa, who had been freed from his bonds, king of Judaea. 24 37
Prince of the Jews, Agrippa, for 7 years
2050 21 d Sejanus, the prefect of Tiberius, who used to possess the greatest influence over him, urges most insistently that the Jewish nation be destroyed: Philo recalls this in the second book of his Embassy . 2 21 34
d Gaius declares himself to be among the gods.
e Flaccus Avilius, prefect of Egypt, oppresses the Jews with many injuries, with the people of Alexandria consenting and resounding with numerous cries against them: he also pollutes their synagogues with images, statues, and altars and sacrificial victims. Philo declares, in the book called Flaccus , that he was present at all
e The satirical poet Persius Flaccus is born at Volaterrae.
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22 f Agrippa the son of Aristobulus, the son of King Herod, the accuser of Herod the Tetrach, having set out for Rome, is thrown in chains by Tiberius. 3 22 35
g Pilate referring the matter of Christian doctrine to Tiberius, Tiberius referred it on to the Senate, so that it would be accepted among the
(1) After this in the PL is the following entry, where the Merton ms. has a blank: Stephen is stoned: Saul is converted to Christ.
(2) Another blank in the manuscript is filled in the PL with these two entries: James the brother of John the apostle, by the order of King Herod, is beheaded. -- The apostle Peter thrown into prison by Herod, and having been bound with two chains, he is miraculously freed by an angel.
(3) In the PL, but not in the Ms. this entry continues: because he had publicly prayed to God, so that, right away upon the death of Tiberius, he would see Gaius the lord of all.
(4) 'Sacra' rendered as 'recognised religions'.
(5) In the PL, not in the Ms. there follows: Peter the Apostle founded the Church at Antioch, and there securing his (episcopal) throne, he sat (reigning as bishop) for 25 years.
(6) The PL adds: in the villa of Lucullus.
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these things, which is why he himself had even undertaken a delegation to Gaius. 5th of the Romans, Claudius reigned 13 years, 8 months, 28 days.
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