[22] Juvenal, Sat. xiv. 97.
[23] Tacitus, Hist. v. 9.
[24] Hist. v. 4.
[25] Hist. v. 8.
[26] Ib. 5. Cp. Juv. Sat. xiv. 103–4.
[27] Annales, xv. 44.
[28] Juv. Sat. iii. 12–14.
[29] Hist. i. 1.
[30] It is, however, only fair to add that the Jewish records know nothing of these atrocities, and, as M. Reinach justly comments, the above details (for which Dion Cassius is our sole authority) “inspirent la méfiance.” The numbers of the victims, as reported by Dion, are in themselves sufficient to throw doubt upon the story.
[31] H. Graetz, History of the Jews, Eng. tr. vol. ii. p. 405.