The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§ 1. Troubles of the Jews in Alexandria.

FLACCUS Avilius was now Governour of Aegyt, and had been so for some years before: A man that ruled well while Tiberius lived, but after his death, could not govern himself. For when he heard of the death of the old Emperour and the succession of the new, sorrow for the one, and fear of the other did so transport him besides himself, that forgetting the bravery and glory wherewith he had governed hitherto, he let loose the reins of himself to these two passions, and the reins of the government to desperate carelesness and neglect. He did nothing but weep for the loss of old Tiberius, to whom he had been very intimate and dear, and he might well weep the more, because he could meet hardly with any that would bear any part and share in that sorrow with him. This his grief was augmented by the fear that he had of Caius and of his displeasure, and that by the intelligence that his conscience gave him that he had deserved it: partly for his propensity to young Tiberius and siding with him, but chiefly because he had had some hand or at least some consent and inclination to the death of Agrippina, Caius his Mother. Both these his miserable passions were brought to their height when he heard of the death of young Tiberius and of his old friend Ma∣cro. The thought of these two was the only comfort he had against his dejectedness and discontent, for all his hope was, that these two might make his peace with Caius, whose displeasure he so much doubted: But what must he do now, when they cannot make their own peace? He yeeldeth himself therefore wholly to his discontented mood, and neglecteth utterly both himself and the State. His old friends he groweth jealous of and rejecteth: his professed enemies he receiveth to his favour and to his counsels: These rule him that should have ruled Egypt, and he had done it worthily, but now is drawn any whither, that ill advise, fullenness and melancholy doth direct him. These his wicked Counsellors invent a course to procure his peace and the Emperours favour, a course indeed bloody, barbarous, and inhumane, but such as suited with their own malice, and (as it proved) took place with the Governors desperateness and cowardize,

if so be he may be called a Governor still. Caius the Emperour, say they, is an enemy to the Jews, and a friend to the Alexandrians: Let this be the opportunity whereby to work thy reconciliation, to suffer the City to rise against the Jews and to commit outrage up∣on them, and thou canst not perform an act more acceptable to the Prince, nor more profitable for thy self. The wretched Flaccus that took to heart no mans misery but his own, and cared not who suffered, so he might escape, gave ear to this damnable and devilish counsel, and put it in practice, first plotting mischief against the Jews in secret, then oppressing them in judgment and in their suites openly, and at the last pro∣fessing and publishing himself their resolved enemy.