also set Alexander Lysimachus, the alabarch,
at liberty, who had been his old friend, and steward to his mother
Antonia, but had been imprisoned by Caius, whose son [Marcus] married
Bernice, the daughter of Agrippa. But when Marcus, Alexander's son, was
dead, who had married her when she was a virgin, Agrippa gave her
in marriage to his brother Herod, and begged for him of Claudius the
kingdom of Chalcis.

2. Now about this time there was a sedition between the Jews and the
Greeks, at the city of Alexandria; for when Caius was dead, the nation
of the Jews, which had been very much mortified under the reign of
Caius, and reduced to very great distress by the people of Alexandria,
recovered itself, and immediately took up their arms to fight for
themselves. So Claudius sent an order to the president of Egypt to quiet
that tumult; he also sent an edict, at the requests of king Agrippa
and king Herod, both to Alexandria and to Syria, whose contents were as
follows: "Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, high priest, and
tribune of the people, ordains thus: Since I am assured that the Jews
of Alexandria, called Alexandrians, have been joint inhabitants in the
earliest times with the Alexandrians, and have obtained from their kings
equal privileges with them, as is evident by the public records that
are in their possession, and the edicts themselves; and that after
Alexandria had been subjected to our empire by Augustus, their rights
and privileges have been preserved by those presidents who have at
divers times been sent thither; and that no dispute had been raised
about those rights and privileges, even when Aquila was governor of
Alexandria; and that when the Jewish ethnarch was dead, Augustus did not
prohibit the making such ethnarchs, as willing that all men should be so
subject [to the Romans] as to continue in the observation of their own
customs, and not be forced to transgress the ancient rules of their
own country religion; but that, in the time of Caius, the Alexandrians
became insolent towards the Jews that were among them, which Caius, out
of his great madness and want of understanding, reduced the nation
of the Jews very low, because they would not transgress the religious
worship of their country, and call him a god: I will therefore that the
nation of the Jews be not deprived of their rights and privileges, on
account of the madness of Caius; but that those rights and privileges
which they formerly enj