"You know how large a group they (the Jews of Rome) are, how unanimously they stick together, how influential they are in politics. I shall lower my voice and speak just loudly enough for the jury to hear me; for there are plenty of people to stir up those Jews against me and against every good Roman."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero (a lawyer, amongst many other things) defending Valerius Flaccus, accused of stealing gold from Jews, in a trial in Rome during 59 B.C.
Brown, Raymond Edward & Meier, John P. Antioch and Rome: New Testament Cradles of Catholic Christianity. New Jersey; Paulist Press. 1983. p.93.
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