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In this context, Philo wrote that Caligula "regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his". The Governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, fearing civil war if the order were carried out, delayed implementing it for nearly a year.Philo of Alexandria, On the Embassy to Gaius XXXI.213. Agrippa finally convinced Caligula to reverse the order.
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Riots again erupted in 40 CE between Jews and Greeks. Jews were accused of not honouring the emperor, and Jews were angered by the erection of a clay altar and destroyed it. In response, Caligula ordered the erection of a statue of himself in the Temple of Jerusalem. Philo wrote that Caligula "regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his".
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Philo of Alexandria, On the Embassy to Gaius XVI.115. In this context, Philo of Alexandria wrote that Caligula "regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his". The sole source is Philo of Alexandria, himself a Jew, who witnessed the riots and afterwards led the Jewish delegation to Caligula, and requested the re-establishment of legal Jewish residence in Alexandria. Philo's writings on the topic are found in two sources: In Flaccum (meaning "Against Flaccus"), which is wholly devoted to the riots, and Legatio ad Gaium (meaning "Embassy to Caligula"), which makes some references to the event in its introduction.
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Approbativeness [noun], is an excessive eagerness to become the subject of approval or praise.Helen Martineau to Emily Higginson, 17 February 1829 (shorthand, transcribed by Tony Rail and Beryl Thomas); Harris Manchester College Oxford, JAMES MARTINEAU PAPERS: MS J Martineau, 9, Correspondence of Helen Martineau. One of the rare examples of the word's use, appears in a letter of 1829, from Mrs Helen Martineau, in which she comments on the figures in an embroidered fire-screen made by her youngest sister Isabella Higginson (1808-1860): > The Gypsey is my most especial admiration, and no less James’s too, who says > he hopes [Isabella] has not the organ of approbativeness, or woe betide her > where she is an object of such unbounded praise.Helen Martineau to Emily > Higginson, 17 February 1829; Harris Manchester College Oxford, JAMES > MARTINEAU PAPERS: MS J Martineau, 9.
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