he twentieth day of the month Thargeleon. While Marcus
Piso the lieutenant lived in our city, who was also appointed over the
choice of the soldiers, he called us, and many other of the citizens,
and gave order, that if there be here any Jews who are Roman citizens,
no one is to give them any disturbance about going into the army,
because Cornelius Lentulus, the consul, freed the Jews from going
into the army, on account of the superstition they are under;--you are
therefore obliged to submit to the praetor." And the like decree was
made by the Sardians about us also.

15. "Caius Phanius, the son of Caius, imperator and consul, to the
magistrates of Cos, sendeth greeting. I would have you know that the
ambassadors of the Jews have been with me, and desired they might have
those decrees which the senate had made about them; which decrees are
here subjoined. My will is, that you have a regard to and take care of
these men, according to the senate's decree, that they may be safely
conveyed home through your country."

16. The declaration of Lucius Lentulus the consul: "I have dismissed
those Jews who are Roman citizens, and who appear to me to have their
religious rites, and to observe the laws of the Jews at Ephesus, on
account of the superstition they are under. This act was done before the
thirteenth of the calends of October."

17. "Lucius Antonius, the son of Marcus, vice-quaestor, and
vice-praetor, to the magistrates, senate, and people of the Sardians,
sendeth greeting. Those Jews that are our fellow citizens of Rome
came to me, and demonstrated that they had an assembly of their own,
according to the laws of their forefathers, and this from the beginning,
as also a place of their own, wherein they determined their suits and
controversies with one another. Upon their petition therefore to me,
that these might be lawful for them, I gave order that these their
privileges be preserved, and they be permitted to do accordingly."

18. The declaration of Marcus Publius, the son of Spurius, and of
Marcus, the son of Marcus, and of Lucius, the son of Publius: "We
went to the proconsul, and informed him of what Dositheus, the son of
Cleopatrida of Alexandria, desired, that, if he thought good, he would
dismiss those Jews who were Roman citizens, and were wont to observe the
rites of the Jewish religion, on account of the superstition they
were under. Accordingly, he did dismiss them. This was done before the
thirteenth of