Note 254 — Chapter XVI · JEWS IN ROME DURING THE EARLY EMPIRE
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Livy, Epit. lvi. Eunous, the leader, called his followers Syri, and himself King Antiochus. Cf. Florus, ii. 7 (iii. 9), Diodorus fr. xxxiv. 2, 5. Atargatis was the Dea Syria that played so important a rôle in the life of the empire.