To this party many of the traders belong, and the Jew had reason to think that I was acquainted with the design, and could give the names of those concerned in it.

There was really no plot against Augustus, but it was only intended that a popular demonstration against his rule should be made.

But Soloman wanted me to give evidence that there was a conspiracy against the king's life, so that he might gain great credit by exposing it, and might at the same time rid himself of many of his rivals in the trade." "He was an artful fox," the leader of the brigands said, when this had been translated to him.

"But where is the Jew he put over you ?" Three or four of the men sprang to their feet and ran out, but the Jew was nowhere to be seen.

The captain was furious, and abused his men right and left, while his anger was in no way mitigated when one of them told him that, if he had wanted the Jew kept, he should have given one of them orders to look after him.