[317]. Josephus, Ant. XX. viii.
Chapter XVIII
THE REVOLT OF 68 C.E.
[318]. Cf. Livy, Books XXXIX and XL.
[319]. Tac. Ann. iii. 40 seq.; ibid. ii. 52; iv. 23. In 52 C.E., Cilicia rose in revolt; ibid. xii. 55. The Jewish disturbances of the same year are alluded to in Tac. Ann. xii. 54—a passage omitted in Reinach.
[320]. Josephus, Wars, II. xvi.
[321]. The entire life of this curious impostor, as portrayed by Lucian, is of the highest interest. The maddest and most insolent pranks received no severer punishment than exclusion from Rome.
[322]. C. I. L. vii. 5471.
[323]. For the Armenian, British, etc., rebellions, see Suet. Nero, 39, 40. In at least one other part of the empire, prophecy and poetry maintained the hope of an ultimate supremacy, something like the Messianic hope of the Jews. This was in Spain, and upon this fact Galba laid great stress. Suet. Galba, 9: Quorum carminum sententia erat, oriturum quandoque ex Hispania principem dominumque rerum.
[324]. Suetonius speaks first of the joy shown at his death, then of the grief. It is, however, easy to see that the latter manifestation was probably the more genuine and lasting.
[325]. Josephus, Ant. XX. viii. 11; Vita, 3.