nt person
from the other. I mean this only upon the hypothesis that Josephus was
not misinformed as to his being a Cypriot Jew; for otherwise the time,
the name, the profession, and the wickedness of them both would strongly
incline one to believe them the very same. As to that Drusilla, the
sister of Agrippa, junior, as Josephus informs us here, and a Jewess, as
St. Luke informs us, Acts 24:24, whom this Simon mentioned by Josephus
persuaded to leave her former husband, Azizus, king of Emesa, a
proselyte of justice, and to marry Felix, the heathen procurator of
Judea, Tacitus, Hist. V. 9, supposes her to be a heathen; and the
grand-daughter of Antonius and Cleopatra, contrary both to St. Luke and
Josephus. Now Tacitus lived somewhat too remote, both as to time and
place, to be compared with either of those Jewish writers, in a matter
concerning the Jews in Judea in their own days, and concerning a sister
of Agrippa, junior, with which Agrippa Josephus was himself so well
acquainted. It is probable that Tacitus may say true, when he informs us
that this Felix [who had in all three wives, or queens, as Suetonius
in Claudius, sect. 28, assures us] did once marry such a grandchild of
Antonius and Cleopatra; and finding the name of one of them to have
been Drusilla, he mistook her for that other wife, whose name he did not
know.

[14] This eruption of Vesuvius was one of the greatest we have in
history. See Bianchini's curious and important observations on this
Vesuvius, and its seven several great eruptions, with their remains
vitrified, and still existing, in so many different strata under
ground, till the diggers came to the antediluvian waters, with their
proportionable interstices, implying the deluge to have been above two
thousand five hundred years before the Christian era, according to our
exactest chronology.

[15] This is now wanting.

[16] This also is now wanting.

[17] This duration of the reign of Claudius agrees with Dio, as Dr.
Hudson here remarks; as he also remarks that Nero's name, which was at
first L. Domitius Aenobarbus, after Claudius had adopted him was Nero
Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. This Soleus as [own Life, sect. 11,
as also] by Dio Cassius and Taeims, as Dr. Hudson informs us.

[18] This agrees with Josephus's frequent accounts elsewhere in his own
Life, that Tibetans, and Taricheae, and Gamala were under this Agrippa,
junior, till Justus, the son of Pistus, seized for the Jews, up