Note 196 — Chapter XI · JUDAEA AND THE JEWS. (continued 2)
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The analogous treatment of castration in the Hadrianic edict, Dig. xlviii. 8, 4, 2, and of circumcision in Paulus, Sent. v. 22, 3, 4, and Modestinus, Dig. xlviii. 8, 11 pr., naturally suggests this point of view. The statement that Severus Judaeos fieri sub gravi poena vetuit (Vita, 17), is doubtless nothing but the enforcement of this prohibition.