Note 192 — Chapter XI · JUDAEA AND THE JEWS. (continued 2)

Dio (lxix. 12) calls the war protracted (οὔτ' ὀλιγοχρόνιος); Eusebius in his Chronicle puts its beginning in the sixteenth, its end in the eighteenth or nineteenth year of Hadrian; the coins of the insurgents are dated from the first or from the second year of the deliverance of Israel. We have not trustworthy dates; the Rabbinic tradition (Schürer, Lehrbuch, p. 361) is not available in this respect.