The Jews Battle Their Neighbors
The Jews, who were in Libya, fight against their foreign-born neighbors. Likewise in Egypt, in Alexandria, and even Cyrene and the Thebaid, they struggle with great rebellion; but a portion of the gentiles defeat (them) in Alexandria.
The emperor Trajan ordered Quietus of Lysia to banish the rebellious Jews of Mesopotamia from the province: Quietus, drawing up an army against them, killed countless thousands of them, and for this he is appointed procurator of Judaea by the emperor.
After the gentiles there had been killed, the Jews overthrew Salamis, a city of Cyprus.
Translated by Roger Pearse.
Credits
Jerome, Chronicon, 223rd Olympiad, trans. and ed. Roger Pearse and friends, 2005, from https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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