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the name Claudiopolis. And he founded the city of Britannia near the Ocean. The same emperor Claudius also gave an established status to the Green faction. And during his reign, Ephesus and Smyrna and many other cities of Asia suffered from a divine scourge, to which he granted many things for their renewal. At that time the great city of Antioch was also shaken by an earthquake, and the temple of Artemis and of Ares and of Herakles was rent asunder, and notable houses fell. The same emperor Claudius lightened for the guilds, that is, the corporations, of the city of Antioch in Syria the liturgy which they provided for the smoke-tax, for the renewal of its roofed colonnades which had been built by Tiberius Caesar. In the beginning of the reign of the same Claudius Caesar, ten years after the ascension of our lord and god Jesus Christ, the first after the holy apostle Peter to receive the ordination of the episcopate of the great city 247 of Antioch in Syria was Euodos, who became patriarch. And during his time they were named Christians, when the same bishop Euodos preached to them and gave them this name. For formerly the Christians were called Nazoreans and were called Galileans. In the eighth year of the reign of the same Claudius Caesar, the Jews made a great persecution against the apostles and their disciples and were plotting tyranny against the Romans. Wherefore, a chiliarch named Festus was first sent against them; and from that time destruction came upon them. For the same emperor Claudius appointed for them a ruler named Felix, who troubled them. And 18 years after the ascension into the heavens of our lord and god Jesus Christ, on the feast of the Pentecost of the same Jews, the priests on that same day heard a human voice saying from the inner sanctuary, which is called the holy of holies, 'We are departing from here.' And the same priests heard this voice spoken a third time, as they were sacrificing, and this became known to the whole nation. And from that time destruction began for the Jews, as Josephus the philosopher of the Hebrews wrote these things, having also said this, that from the time the Jews crucified 248 Jesus, who was a good and just man, if indeed one ought to call such a one a man and not a god, pain did not cease from the land of Judea. The same Josephus set forth these things for the Jews in his Jewish writings. During the reign of the same Claudius, the same Antiochene landowners and citizens sent a petition, asking that they be granted by his divine command to purchase the Olympic games from the Pisans of the land of Greece from the annual revenues of the money left by a certain Sosibius, a senator, their fellow citizen. And the same emperor Claudius granted them to purchase the Olympic games, in the year which according to the Syrian Antiochenes was 92. The same Antiochenes did this because they were aggrieved with the magistrates of the same city on account of the aforementioned revenues, left by Sosibius to their city; concerning which Sosibius the wise chronographer Pausanias set forth that a certain Sosibius, upon his death, left by his will to the great city of the Antiochenes an annual revenue of fifteen talents of gold; which has been written previously in the times of Augustus Octavianus. The revenues were left for the purpose of putting on for the same fellow citizens, every five years, a varied spectacle for 30 days in the month of Hyperberetaios, which is also October, of scenic, thymelic, and tragic performances, and a contest of athletes and of horse 249 races and of gladiators. And at first the same magistrates put them on, but after this they misappropriated the revenues, making a profit, by divine command the same magistrates of Antioch, together with the landowners, purchased the Olympic games from the Pisans. And the same men asked

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ὄνομα Κλαυδιούπολιν. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ Βρεττανίαν πόλιν πλησίον τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Κλαύδιος βασιλεὺς καὶ τῇ δημοκρατίᾳ τῶν Πρασίνων κατάστασιν ἔδωκεν. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας ἡ Ἔφεσος καὶ ἡ Σμύρνα καὶ πολλαὶ ἄλλαι πόλεις τῆς Ἀσίας, αἷστισιν ἐχαρίσατο πολλὰ εἰς ἀνανέωσιν. ἐσείσθη δὲ τότε καὶ ἡ μεγάλη Ἀντιόχεια πόλις, καὶ διεῤῥάγη ὁ ναὸς τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ τοῦ Ἄρεως καὶ τοῦ Ἡρακλέος καὶ οἶκοι φανεροὶἔπεσαν. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Κλαύδιος ἐκούφισεν ἀπὸ τῶν συνεργιῶν, ἤτοι συστημάτων, τῆς Ἀντιοχέων πόλεως τῆς Συρίας τὴν λειτουργίαν ἣν παρεῖχον ὑπὲρ καπνοῦ, εἰς ἀνανέωσιν τῶν ὑπορόφων ἐμβόλων αὐτῆς τῶν κτισθέντων ὑπὸ Τιβερίου Καίσαρος. Ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἀρχαῖς τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος μετὰ τὸ ἀναληφθῆναι τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν καὶ θεὸν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν μετὰ ἔτη δέκα πρῶτος μετὰ τὸν ἅγιον Πέτρον τὸν ἀπόστολον τὴν χειροτονίαν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς τῆς Ἀντιοχέων μεγάλης 247 πόλεως τῆς Συρίας ἔλαβεν Εὔοδος γενόμενος πατριάρχης. καὶ ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ χριστιανοὶ ὠνομάσθησαν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπισκόπου Εὐόδου προσομιλήσαντος αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐπιθήσαντος αὐτοῖς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦτο. πρῴην γὰρ Ναζωραῖοι ἐκαλοῦντο καὶ Γαλιλαῖοι ἐκαλοῦντο οἱ χριστιανοί. Τῷ δὲ ὀγδόῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος διωγμὸν μέγαν ἐποίησαν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι κατὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτῶν καὶ τυραννίδα κατὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐμελέτουν. ὅθεν πρῶτος ἐπέμφθη κατ' αὐτῶν χιλίαρχος ὀνόματι Φῆστος· καὶ ἐξ ἐκείνου ὄλεθρος αὐτοῖς ἐγένετο. καὶ ἄρχοντα γὰρ προεχειρίσατο αὐτοῖς ὁ αὐτὸς Κλαύδιος βασιλεὺς Φήλικα ὀνόματι, ταράσσοντα αὐτούς. Μετὰ δὲ ιηʹ ἔτη τοῦ ἀναληφθῆναι ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν καὶ θεὸν Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ τῆς πεντηκοστῆς τῶν αὐτῶν Ἰουδαίων, οἱ ἱερεῖς ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἤκουσαν φωνῆς ἀνθρωπίνης λεγούσης ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐσωτέρου ἱεροῦ τοῦ λεγομένου ἅγιον τῶν ἁγίων, Μεθιστάμεθα ἐντεῦθεν. τὴν δὲ φωνὴν ταύτην τρίτον ῥηθεῖσαν ἤκουσαν, ὡς θυσιάζουσιν, οἱ αὐτοὶ ἱερεῖς, καὶ ἐγνώσθη τοῦτο παντὶ τῷ ἔθνει. καὶ ἐξ ἐκείνου ὄλεθρος ἤρξατο τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις, καθὼς Ἰώσηπος ὁ Ἑβραίων φιλόσοφος ταῦτασυνεγράψατο, εἰρηκὼς καὶ τοῦτο, ὅτι ἐξότε Ἰουδαῖοι ἐσταύρωσαν 248 Ἰησοῦν, ὃς ἦν ἄνθρωπος ἀγαθὸς καὶ δίκαιος, εἴπερ ἄρα τὸν τοιοῦτον ἄνθρωπον δεῖ λέγειν καὶ μὴ θεόν, οὐκ ἐξέλειψεν ὀδύνη ἐκ τῆς Ἰουδαίας χώρας. ταῦτα ἐν τοῖς Ἰουδαϊκοῖς συγγράμμασιν αὐτοῦ ἐξέθετο ὁ αὐτὸς Ἰώσηπος Ἰουδαίοις. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κλαυδίου οἱ αὐτοὶ Ἀντιοχεῖς κτήτορες καὶ πολῖται ἀναφορὰν ἔπεμψαν, δεόμενοι ὥστε παρασχεθῆναι αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ θείας αὐτοῦ κελεύσεως ἀγορασθῆναι τὰ Ὀλύμπια ἀπὸ τῶν Πισαίων τῆς Ἑλλάδος χώρας ἀπὸ τῶν ἐτησίων προσόδων τῶν ἐαθέντων χρημάτων παρὰ Σωσιβίου τινὸς συγκλητικοῦ, συμπολίτου αὐτῶν. καὶ παρέσχεν αὐτοῖς ἀγοράσαι τὰ Ὀλύμπια ὁ αὐτὸς Κλαύδιος βασιλεύς, ἔτους χρηματίζοντος κατὰ τοὺς Ἀντιοχεῖς Σύρους ςβʹ. τοῦτο δὲ ἐποίησαν οἱ αὐτοὶ Ἀντιοχεῖς λυπηθέντες πρὸς τοὺς πολιτευομένους τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως διὰ τὰς προσόδους τὰς προειρημένας, παρὰ Σωσιβίου ἐαθείσας τῇ πόλει αὐτῶν· περὶ οὗ Σωσιβίου ὁ σοφὸς χρονογράφος Παυσανίας ἐξέθετο ὅτι εἴασε τελευτῶν κατὰ διαθήκας τῇ τῶν Ἀντιοχέων μεγάλῃ πόλει Σωσίβιός τις ἐτησίαν πρόσοδον χρυσίου τάλαντα δεκαπέντε· ἅτινα ἐν τοῖς ἀνωτέρω χρόνοις τοῦ Αὐγούστου Ὀκταβιανοῦ προγέγραπται. τὰ δὲ τῆς προσόδου εἰάθη εἰς τὸ ἐπιτελεῖσθαι τοῖς αὐτοῖς συμπολίταις κατὰ πενταετῆ χρόνον πολύτροπον θέαν ἐπὶ ἡμέρας λʹ μηνὶ ὑπερβερεταίῳ τῷ καὶ ὀκτωβρίῳ σκηνικῶν, θυμελικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν καὶ ἀθλητῶν ἀγῶνα καὶ ἱπ 249 πικῶν καὶ μονομάχων. καὶ τὰς μὲν ἀρχὰς ἐπετέλεσαν οἱ αὐτοὶ πολιτευόμενοι, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ὑπερετίθεντο τὰς προσόδους ἀποκερδαίνοντες, ἀπὸ θείας κελεύσεως οἱ αὐτοὶ πολιτευόμενοι Ἀντιοχείας μετὰ καὶ τῶν κτητόρων ἠγόρασαν τὰ Ὀλύμπια ἀπὸ τῶν Πισαίων. καὶ ᾔτησαν οἱ αὐτοὶ