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Stern, Greek and Latin Authors, II: From Tacitus to Simplicius (Jerusalem, 1980), pp. 380–381.

Suetonius, in his life of Domitian, Lives of the Caesars, 12.2.

As quoted by Arrian (Dissertationes 2.19–21).

Petronius, fragment 37, Ernout.

Menahem Stern, Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, I: From Herodotus to Plutarch (Jerusalem, 1974), p. 432.

As quoted by Saint Augustine (City of God, 6.11).

Inasmuch as the accused had been the quaestor, in effect administrative assistant, of Verres, it seems unlikely that, unless the passage in Plutarch is unhistorical, he was a Jew in the complete sense, since a Jew would have had to compromise his Jewish observance in the service of the Roman state and, ipso facto, of the state religion.

Plutarch, Cicero 7.6.5.

For further evidence see Bernard J. Bamberger, Proselytism in the Talmudic Period (Cincinnati, 1939) and William G. Braude, Jewish Proselyting in the First Five Centuries of the Common Era: The Age of the Tannaim and Amoraim (Providence, 1940).

For a survey of the evidence see Feldman, “Proselytism and Syncretism” (in Hebrew) in Menahem Stern and Zvi Baras, eds., World History of the Jewish People, First Series: The Diaspora in the Hellenistic-Roman World (Jerusalem, 1984), pp. 188–207, 340–345, 378–380.