[244]. Or “in disgraceful things.”
[245]. Lit. “unbelief.” Traill, “In smothering (Whiston, ‘disguising’) the truth none was more successful.”
[246]. Lit. “all the toparchies”; some MSS read “all the cities.”
[247]. On the west coast of the Dead Sea.
[248]. i. e. “captain of the Temple”; cf. Acts iv. 1, etc.
[249]. Other MSS, omitting “and” (καὶ, which would easily drop out before Καίσαρος), read “the sacrifice of Cæsar on behalf of that nation.”
[250]. Or, possibly, “were making an innovation in the worship of foreigners.”
[251]. The text of this clause is doubtful. I read προσῇσαν, “chimed in” (with Naber; MSS προσίεσαν or προσήεσαν) and λειτουργοὶ (other MSS ληστρικοὶ, “the brigands”).
[252]. Or (reading τὸ before δεινὸν) “the dire news was a godsend.”
[253]. Governor of Syria.