d the thing, when they reflected
on its nature, and partly were amazed at it, as having no pretense for
not believing it, when they considered the modesty and the dignity of
the person. But now, on the third day after what had been done, Mundus
met Paulina, and said, "Nay, Paulina, thou hast saved me two hundred
thousand drachmae, which sum thou sightest have added to thy own family;
yet hast thou not failed to be at my service in the manner I invited
thee. As for the reproaches thou hast laid upon Mundus, I value not the
business of names; but I rejoice in the pleasure I reaped by what I did,
while I took to myself the name of Anubis." When he had said this, he
went his way. But now she began to come to the sense of the grossness
of what she had done, and rent her garments, and told her husband of the
horrid nature of this wicked contrivance, and prayed him not to neglect
to assist her in this case. So he discovered the fact to the emperor;
whereupon Tiberius inquired into the matter thoroughly by examining the
priests about it, and ordered them to be crucified, as well as Ide, who
was the occasion of their perdition, and who had contrived the whole
matter, which was so injurious to the woman. He also demolished the
temple of Isis, and gave order that her statue should be thrown into
the river Tiber; while he only banished Mundus, but did no more to him,
because he supposed that what crime he had committed was done out of the
passion of love. And these were the circumstances which concerned the
temple of Isis, and the injuries occasioned by her priests. I now return
to the relation of what happened about this time to the Jews at Rome, as
I formerly told you I would.

5. There was a man who was a Jew, but had been driven away from his own
country by an accusation laid against him for transgressing their laws,
and by the fear he was under of punishment for the same; but in all
respects a wicked man. He, then living at Rome, professed to instruct
men in the wisdom of the laws of Moses. He procured also three other
men, entirely of the same character with himself, to be his partners.
These men persuaded Fulvia, a woman of great dignity, and one that had
embraced the Jewish religion, to send purple and gold to the temple at
Jerusalem; and when they had gotten them, they employed them for their
own uses, and spent the money themselves, on which account it was that
they at first required it of her. Whereupon Tiberius, who had