An Annual Tribute to Jupiter Capitolinus
Thus was Jerusalem destroyed on the very day of Saturn, the day which even now the Jews reverence most. From that time forth it was ordered that the Jews who continued to observe their ancestral customs should pay an annual tribute of two denarii to Jupiter Capitolinus. In consequence of this success both generals received the title of imperator, but neither got that of Judaïcus, although all the other honours that were fitting on the occasion of so magnificent a victory, including triumphal arches, were voted to them.
Translated by Ernest Cary.
Credits
Dio Cassius, Roman History 65.7.2, from Dio Cassius, vol. VIII, trans. Earnest Cary, Loeb Classical Library, vol. 176 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925), p. 271.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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