ed of what they desired, and made a
league of friendship with them. The senate also decreed to grant them
all they desired. I add the decree itself, that those who read the
present work may have ready by them a demonstration of the truth of what
we say. The decree was this:

10. "The decree of the senate, copied out of the treasury, from the
public tables belonging to the quaestors, when Quintus Rutilius and
Caius Cornelius were quaestors, and taken out of the second table of the
first class, on the third day before the Ides of April, in the temple
of Concord. There were present at the writing of this decree, Lucius
Calpurnius Piso of the Menenian tribe, Servius Papinins Potitus of the
Lemonian tribe, Caius Caninius Rebilius of the Terentine tribe, Publius
Tidetius, Lucius Apulinus, the son of Lucius, of the Sergian tribe,
Flavius, the son of Lucius, of the Lemonian tribe, Publius Platins,
the son of Publius, of the Papyrian tribe, Marcus Acilius, the son of
Marcus, of the Mecian tribe, Lucius Erucius, the son of Lucius, of the
Stellatine tribe, Mareils Quintus Plancillus, the son of Marcus, of
the Pollian tribe, and Publius Serius. Publius Dolabella and Marcus
Antonius, the consuls, made this reference to the senate, that as
to those things which, by the decree of the senate, Caius Caesar had
adjudged about the Jews, and yet had not hitherto that decree been
brought into the treasury, it is our will, as it is also the desire
of Publius Dolabella and Marcus Antonius, our consuls, to have these
decrees put into the public tables, and brought to the city quaestors,
that they may take care to have them put upon the double tables. This
was done before the fifth of the Ides of February, in the temple of
Concord. Now the ambassadors from Hyrcanus the high priest were these:
Lysimachus, the son of Pausanias, Alexander, the son of Theodorus,
Patroclus, the son of Chereas, and Jonathan the son of Onias."

11. Hyrcanus sent also one of these ambassadors to Dolabella, who was
then the prefect of Asia, and desired him to dismiss the Jews from
military services, and to preserve to them the customs of their
forefathers, and to permit them to live according to them. And
when Dolabella had received Hyrcanus's letter, without any further
deliberation, he sent an epistle to all the Asiatics, and particularly
to the city of the Ephesians, the metropolis of Asia, about the Jews; a
copy of which epistle here follows:

12. "When Artermon