Note 162 — Chapter XI · JUDAEA AND THE JEWS.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The Jew Philo sets down the treatment of the Jews in Italy to the account of Sejanus (Leg. 24; in Flacc. 1), that of the Jews in the East to the account of the emperor himself. But Josephus rather traces back what happened in Italy to a scandal in the capital, which had been occasioned by three Jewish pious swindlers and a lady of rank converted to Judaism; and Philo himself states that Tiberius, after the fall of Sejanus, allowed to the governors only certain modifications in the procedure against the Jews. The policy of the emperor and that of his ministers towards the Jews was essentially the same.