was prytanis, on the first day of the month Leneon,
Dolabella, imperator, to the senate, and magistrates, and people of
the Ephesians, sendeth greeting. Alexander, the son of Theodorus,
the ambassador of Hyrcanus, the son of Alexander, the high priest and
ethnarch of the Jews, appeared before me, to show that his countrymen
could not go into their armies, because they are not allowed to bear
arms or to travel on the sabbath days, nor there to procure themselves
those sorts of food which they have been used to eat from the times of
their forefathers;--I do therefore grant them a freedom from going into
the army, as the former prefects have done, and permit them to use the
customs of their forefathers, in assembling together for sacred and
religious purposes, as their law requires, and for collecting oblations
necessary for sacrifices; and my will is, that you write this to the
several cities under your jurisdiction."

13. And these were the concessions that Dolabella made to our nation
when Hyrcanus sent an embassage to him. But Lucius the consul's decree
ran thus: "I have at my tribunal set these Jews, who are citizens of
Rome, and follow the Jewish religious rites, and yet live at Ephesus,
free from going into the army, on account of the superstition they are
under. This was done before the twelfth of the calends of October, when
Lucius Lentulus and Caius Marcellus were consuls, in the presence of
Titus Appius Balgus, the son of Titus, and lieutenant of the Horatian
tribe; of Titus Tongins, the son of Titus, of the Crustumine tribe; of
Quintus Resius, the son of Quintus; of Titus Pompeius Longinus, the son
of Titus; of Catus Servilius, the son of Caius, of the Terentine tribe;
of Bracchus the military tribune; of Publius Lucius Gallus, the son of
Publius, of the Veturian tribe; of Caius Sentins, the son of Caius,
of the Sabbatine tribe; of Titus Atilius Bulbus, the son of Titus,
lieutenant and vice-praetor to the magistrates, senate, and people of
the Ephesians, sendeth greeting. Lucius Lentulus the consul freed the
Jews that are in Asia from going into the armies, at my intercession
for them; and when I had made the same petition some time afterward
to Phanius the imperator, and to Lucius Antonius the vice-quaestor, I
obtained that privilege of them also; and my will is, that you take care
that no one give them any disturbance."

14. The decree of the Delians. "The answer of the praetors, when Beotus
was archon, on t