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Martial, Epigrams 12.57.2–11.

Juvenal, Satires 3.232–314.

Nothing lends plausibility to the suggestion of Dunn that they left their business in Rome in the care of trusted slaves and used the expulsion as an opportunity to establish new branches elsewhere (Dunn, Romans, p. 892).

Ernst Henchen, The Acts of the Apostles: A Commentary (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971), p. 533, note 4.

See my St. Paul’s Corinth: Texts and Archaeology (Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1983), pp. 130–137.

Suetonius, Claudius 25.4.

A detailed and graphic description of what leather stitching involves is to be found in Tim Severin’s story of the reconstruction of the leather boat in which Irish monks allegedly reached America long before the Vikings (The Brendan Voyage [London: Arrow Books, 1979], pp. 42–46).

Pace Lampe, “Paulus—Zeltmacher,” Biblische Zeitschrift 31 (1987), pp. 256–261. Ronald F. Hock is also too categorical in claiming that all tents were made of leather and that Paul in consequence would be better described as a leather-worker (The Social Context of Paul’s Ministry: Tentmaking and Apostleship [Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980], pp. 20–21).

Juvenal speaks of “wintertime, when the arcades are crammed with canvas market-stalls” (Satires 6.153–154). The reference is to the feast of the Saturnalia celebrated December 17–19.

According to Pliny, “Cleopatra had a purple linen sail when she came with Mark Antony to Actium, and with the same sail she fled” (Natural History 19.22).