Usurer. The Romans forced the miserable Jews to pay taxes, and Domitian banished them from Rome, to live in a wood, where their furniture was only a basket and some hay, and their wives came to beg. Cophino fænoque relicto

Arcanam Judæa tremens mendicat in aurem. (Juvenal, Sat. xi. 540.) (Calmet)

--- At the last siege, some of their bodies were ripped open, to discover the gold which they might have swallowed. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 15.) See Deuteronomy xxiv. 10. (Menochius)

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