In answer to your correspondent B. H. C., I beg to say that I have found
out the following passages in classic authors bearing on Judea and the
Jews, all of which I have authenticated myself, except where I had not the
book at hand:
Tacitus. Annales, ii. 85.; xii. 23. 54.; xv. 44.
Ditto. Historiae, i. 10.; ii. 1. 4, 5. 78. 79. 81.; v. _passim_.
Horace. Satires, i. 4. 143.; i. 5. 100.; i. 9. 70.
Juvenal. Satires, ii. 14.; vi. 158-160, 537-547.; xiv. 96-106.
Persius. Satires, v. 180-189.
Martial, iv. 4.
Suetonius. Tiberius, 36.; Augustus, 76.; Claudius, 25.; Vespasian, 5.
&c.; Julius Caesar, 84.
Pliny, v. 14, 15, 16. &c.; vii. 15.; xxviii. 7.
Dio Cassius, lx. s.6.; xxxvii. s.17.
Lucan, ii.