[364]. Passed in 81 B.C.E. This law punished offenses as diverse as murder, arson, poisoning, perjury, abortion, and abuse of magisterial power. In every case it was the effect of the act that was considered.
[365]. Reinach, Textes, p. 197, n. 1.
[366]. The polemos shel kitos of Mishnah Sota ix. 14 and the Seder Olam.
Quietus was a Moorish chieftain of great military ability. He seems to have hoped for the succession to the throne. After the end of the revolt he was transferred to his native province, Mauretania, by Hadrian, and was ultimately executed for treason.
[367]. Meg. Taan., Adar 12; Grätz, Gesch. der Juden,3 iv. 445 seq.
[368]. In the case of non-Jews, the Messianic hope was simply the dread of an impending cataclysm. As far as this dread was connected with the failure of the Julian line, it proved groundless. But the Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of this time are full of prophecies of the end of the world. It was the general belief that the world was very old, and that a fixed cycle, then rapidly coming to its end, determined the limits it would reach.
[369]. Jerus. Taan. iv. 7, p. 68 d. Ekah Rab. ii. 1.
[370]. Dio Cassius (Xiph.), lxix. 12; Reinach, Textes, p. 198.
[371]. Dig. 50, 15, 1, 6.
[372]. Euseb. Hist. Eccl. IV. vi. 4.