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"When Artermon was prytanis, on the first day of the month
Leneon, Dolabella, imperator, to the senate, and magistrates, and people
of the Ephesians, sendeth greeting. Alexander, the son of Theodorus, the
ambassador of Hyrcanus, the son of Alexander, the high priest and ethnarch
of the Jews, appeared before me, to show that his countrymen could not
go into their armies, because they are not allowed to bear arms or to travel
on the sabbath days, nor there to procure themselves those sorts of food
which they have been used to eat from the times of their forefathers; -
I do therefore grant them a freedom from going into the army, as the former
prefects have done, and permit them to use the customs of their forefathers,
in assembling together for sacred and religious purposes, as their law
requires, and for collecting oblations necessary for sacrifices; and my
will is, that you write this to the several cities under your jurisdiction."
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