Some ignorant Jews alone have interpreted in favour of a barbarian god a verse which celebrates the return of the golden age predicted by the Sibylline oracles.

I excused myself then on the ground that I could not occupy a place which was destined for me in error and to which I recognised that I had no right.

Then I alleged my disposition and my tastes, which do not accord with the customs of the new heavens.
"'I am not unsociable,' said I to this man.

'I have shown in life a complaisant and easy disposition, although the extreme simplicity of my habits caused me to be suspected of avarice.

I kept nothing for myself alone.