Rights Granted to the Jews of Alexandria

If he [Apion] had read the letters of King Alexander and those of Ptolemy, son of Lagos, and had he been conversant with the records of those kings of Egypt who succeeded him and with the monument that stands in Alexandria and comprises the rights that Caesar the Great granted to the Judeans; if, I do declare, he knew all these things and had the audacity to write the very opposite things, he is wicked. If he was unaware of all these things, he is ignorant. [ . . . ]

But he is of such nobility that, in considering himself worthy of obtaining a share of things from which he was prevented, he endeavored to falsely accuse those who justly received [these shares]. For it was not from a lack of people inhabiting the city, which was being founded by him with such zeal, that Alexander gathered together some of our people there; rather, by carefully testing everyone there for virtue and loyalty, he granted these privileges to our people. For he used to honor our nation, as Hecataeus also claims concerning us, so on account of the equity and loyalty that the Judeans exhibited toward him, he added the Samaritan region to them, exempt from tribute.