Quotes: There was a debate too about expelling the Egyptian and Jewish worship, and a resolution of the Senate was passed that four thousand of the freedmen class who were infected with those superstitions and were of military age should be transported to the island of Sardinia to quell the brigandage of the place, a cheap sacrifice should they die from the pestilential climate. Ann Book II Chapter 85: On prostitution.It has been thought expedient thus to keep under home control a province so difficult of access, so productive of corn, ever distracted, excitable, and restless through the superstition and licentiousness of its inhabitants, knowing nothing of laws, and unused to civil rule. His Book I Chapter 11: Galba becomes emperor. Africa The Egyptians worship many animals and image of monstrous form; the Jews have purely mental conceptions of Deity, as one in essence. They call those profane who make representations of God in human shape out of perishable materials. They believe that Being to be supreme and eternal, neither capable of representation, nor of decay. They therefore do not allow any images to stand in their cities, much less in their temples. This flattery is not paid to their kings, nor this honour to our Emperors. His Book V Chapter 5: The Jews. Their religion according to Tacitus (cont.) He abolished foreign cults, especially the Egyptian and the Jewish rites, compelling all who were addicted to such superstitions to burn their religious vestments and all their paraphernalia Stn Tiberius Chapter 36: Foreign cults. Other links: World66: Egypt Lonely Planet: Egypt Egypt Cath.Encyc.: Egypt Who's Who of Egypt EgyptĘs TourismNet Egypt WWW index Egypt Contents
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