Jewish War Captives Settle in Alexandria
Letter of Aristeas 12–15, 34b–40
12But I thought that there was an opportune moment concerning matters about which I frequently asked Sosibius of Tarentum and Andreas, the head bodyguards, concerning the deliverance of those deported from Judea by the king’s father—for he invaded the whole of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia…
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