Claudius tried to repeat the experiment thirty years later, he was unable to carry it out. We can hardly suppose that the Jewish community at Rome continued to show any considerable increase after the great rebellions and wars under Vespasian, Titus, Trajan, and Hadrian, since the decimation of the Jews in many provinces of the empire must have re-acted upon the Jewish community in the capital. Details on this point, however, are awanting. If the Jews in Egypt amounted to about a million, those in