| 1. Anon., Sibylline Oracles, 11.239-11.242, 11.298-11.303 (1st cent. BCE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •fecundity Found in books: Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 23 |
| 2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Joseph, 135-136 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24 |
3. Philo of Alexandria, Against Flaccus, 56-70, 72, 71 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24 | 71. and then when they were dead they raged no less against them with interminable hostility, and inflicted still heavier insults on their persons, dragging them, I had almost said, though all the alleys and lanes of the city, until the corpse, being lacerated in all its skin, and flesh, and muscles from the inequality and roughness of the ground, all the previously united portions of his composition being torn asunder and separated from one another, was actually torn to pieces. |
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| 4. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 120-122, 124-139, 123 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24 |
| 5. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 2.1.2, 5.10.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •pudicitia (chastity), and fecundity Found in books: Mueller, Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus (2002) 27 |
6. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 2.53-2.55 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •fecundity Found in books: Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24| 2.53. τεστις αυτεμ δευς ιυστιτιαε ειυς μανιφεστυς αππαρυιτ; ναμ φψσξον πτολομαευς ξυμ αδυερσυμ εχερξιτυμ θυιδεμ ονιαε πυγναρε πραεσυμερετ, ομνες υερο ιυδαεος ιν ξιυιτατε ποσιτος ξυμ φιλιις ετ υχοριβυς ξαπιενς νυδος ατθυε υινξτος ελεπηαντις συβιεξισσετ, υτ αβ εις ξονξυλξατι δεφιξερεντ, ετ αδ ηοξ ετιαμ βεστιας ιπσας δεβριασσετ, ιν ξοντραριυμ θυαε πραεπαραυερατ ευενερυντ. 2.54. ελεπηαντι ενιμ ρελινθυεντες σιβι απποσιτος ιυδαεος ιμπετυ φαξτο συπερ αμιξος ειυς μυλτος εχ ιπσις ιντερεμερυντ. ετ ποστ ηαεξ πτολομαευς θυιδεμ ασπεξτυμ τερριβιλεμ ξοντεμπλατυς εστ προηιβεντεμ σε, υτ ιλλις νοξερετ 2.55. ηομινιβυς, ξονξυβινα υερο συα ξαρισσιμα, θυαμ αλιι θυιδεμ ιτηαξαμ, αλιι υερο ηιρενεν δενομιναντ, συππλιξαντε νε τανταμ ιμπιετατεμ περαγερετ, ει ξονξεσσιτ ετ εχ ηις θυαε ιαμ εγερατ υελ αξτυρυς ερατ παενιτεντιαμ εγιτ. υνδε ρεξτε ηανξ διεμ ιυδαει αλεχανδρια ξονστιτυτι εο θυοδ απερτε α δεο σαλυτεμ προμερυερυντ ξελεβραρε νοσξυντυρ. | 2.53. Accordingly, God gave a remarkable attestation to his righteous procedure; for when Ptolemy Physco had the presumption to fight against Onias’s army, and had caught all the Jews that were in the city [Alexandria], with their children and wives, and exposed them naked and in bonds to his elephants, that they might be trodden upon and destroyed, and when he had made those elephants drunk for that purpose, the event proved contrary to his preparations; 2.54. for these elephants left the Jews who were exposed to them, and fell violently upon Physco’s friends, and slew a great number of them; nay, after this, Ptolemy saw a terrible ghost, which prohibited his hurting those men; 2.55. his very concubine, whom he loved so well (some call her Ithaca, and others Irene), making supplication to him, that he would not perpetrate so great a wickedness. So he complied with her request, and repented of what he either had already done, or was about to do; whence it is well known that the Alexandrian Jews do with good reason celebrate this day, on the account that they had thereon been vouchsafed such an evident deliverance from God. |
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7. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 51.17.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •fecundity Found in books: Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 23 | 51.17.2. On the other hand he did not allow the Egyptians to be senators in Rome; but whereas he made various dispositions as regards the several cities, he commanded the Alexandrians to conduct their government without senators; with such capacity for revolution, I suppose, did he credit them. |
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