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Philo Of Alexandria, On The Embassy To Gaius, 123-124
nan These things were of themselves terrible and grievous; how could they be otherwise? Surely it was most miserable for men to become beggars from having been wealthy, and to be reduced on a sudden from a state of abundance to one of utter indigence, without having done any wrong, and to be rendered houseless and homeless, being driven out and expelled from their own houses, that thus, being compelled to dwell in the open air day and night, they might be destroyed by the burning heat of the sun or by the cold of the night.
nan Yet even these evils were lighter than those which I am about to mention; for when the populace had driven together these countless myriads of men, and women, and children, like so many herds of sheep and oxen, from every quarter of the city, into a very narrow space as if into a pen, they expected that in a few days they should find a heap of corpses all huddled together, as they would either have perished by hunger through the want of necessary food, as they had not prepared themselves with any thing requisite, through a foreknowledge of the evils which thus suddenly came upon them;

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1. Philo of Alexandria, Against Flaccus, 54, 57, 62, 72, 76, 90, 48 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 48. but the Jews, for they were not inclined to remain quiet under everything, although naturally entirely disposed towards peace, not only because contests for natural customs do among all men appear more important than those which are only for the sake of life, but also because they alone of all the people under the sun, if they were deprived of their houses of prayer, would at the same time be deprived of all means of showing their piety towards their benefactors, which they would have looked upon as worse than ten thousand deaths, inasmuch as if their synagogues were destroyed they would no longer have any sacred places in which they could declare their gratitude, might have reasonably said to those who opposed them:
2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Embassy To Gaius, 122, 124, 130, 132, 134, 138, 121 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 121. for they began to crush our people as if they had been surrendered by the emperor for the most extreme and undeniable miseries, or as if they had been subdued in war, with their frantic and most brutal passion, forcing their way into their houses, and driving out the owners, with their wives and children, which they rendered desolate and void of inhabitants.
3. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 14.117 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 14.117. Accordingly, the Jews have places assigned them in Egypt, wherein they inhabit, besides what is peculiarly allotted to this nation at Alexandria, which is a large part of that city. There is also an ethnarch allowed them, who governs the nation, and distributes justice to them, and takes care of their contracts, and of the laws to them belonging, as if he were the ruler of a free republic.
4. Tosefta, Sukkah, 4.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.6. Why did they blow three blasts? To make the people cease from work. The sexton took the trumpets, and went to the top of the highest roof in the city to summon those near the city to cease from work. Those near the limits of the city assembled themselves together and came to the schoolhouse. They did not come immediately the trumpets blew, but waited till all were gathered together, and then all came at once. When did they assemble? After one could fill a bottle of water, or fry a fish, or light his lamp. "

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
city of alexandria, five districts	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
city of alexandria, necropoleis and cemeteries	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
clothing, of the poor	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 53
collection, restorative	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130
david, king	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130
favor	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 155
housing, independence, economic	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 155
housing	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 55
jerusalem, famines in	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130
jews in alexandria, ethnic cleansing	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, gerousia	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, great synagogue	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, jewish district/delta quarter	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, refugees	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, synagogues	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
nahal hever, navtalah, house of	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130
nero, emperor	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 155
or, the jebusite	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130
pogrom	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
poor, conjunctural	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130
poor, empathy for	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 155
poor, in roman palestine	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 53, 55
schwartz, joshua	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 55
shame	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 53, 155
shelter, of the poor	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 53, 55
solomon, king	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130
trajan, emperor	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
wealth'	Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism (2015) 130