Note 11 — Chapter I · A.D. 7-70. FROM THE REVOLT OF JUDAS TO THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.

It was not in Judæa only that these feelings were aroused. In Alexandria, the proposal made by the Greeks, to place the emperor’s statue in the Jewish Proseuchæ, provoked riots, in which much property was wrecked, and terrible carnage took place. The Roman governor, Flaccus Aquilius, for many years a wise and able ruler, but who had grown reckless since the accession of Caligula, towards whom he bore no good will, made no attempt to repress, but rather encouraged, the outrages. He was so unwise as to openly insult the emperor’s friend, Agrippa. He was arrested by order of Caligula, and put to death with barbarous cruelty.