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The teaching and the Church of our Saviour flourished greatly and
made progress from day to day; but the calamities of the Jews
increased, and they underwent a constant succession of evils. In the
eighteenth year of Trajan's reign there was another disturbance of the
Jews, through which a great multitude of them perished.' For in
Alexandria and in the rest of Egypt, and also in Cyrene, as if
incited by some terrible and factious spirit, they rushed into
seditious measures against their fellow-inhabitants, the Greeks.
The insurrection increased greatly, and in the following year, while
Lupus was governor of all Egypt, it developed into a war of no mean
magnitude.
In the first attack it happened that they were victorious over the
Greeks, who fled to Alexandria and imprisoned and slew the Jews that
were in the city. But the Jews of Cyrene, although deprived of
their aid, continued to plunder the land of Egypt and to devastate its
districts, under the leadership of Lucuas. Against them the emperor
sent Marcius Turbo with a foot and naval force and also with a force
of cavalry. He carried on the war against them for a long time and
fought many battles, and slew many thousands of Jews, not only of
those of Cyrene, but also of those who dwelt in Egypt and had come to
the assistance of their king Lucuas. But the emperor, fearing that
the Jews in Mesopotamia would also make an attack upon the inhabitants
of that country, commanded Lucius Quintus to clear the province of
them. And he having marched against them slew a great multitude of
those that dwelt there; and in consequence of his success he was made
governor of Judea by the emperor. These events are recorded also in
these very words by the Greek historians that have written accounts of
those times.
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