After lying in near ruin for almost a century, the city had been refounded by Julius Caesar in 44 BC. Veterans and other colonists from Rome settled there. Some new inhabitants may have been from Rome’s Jewish population, descendants of those brought to Rome as slaves by Roman armies. Others may have arrived when Emperor Tiberius expelled Jews and Egyptians from Rome (Tacitus, Annales 2.45.4; Josephus, Antiquitates judaicae 18.65–84). Prisca and Aquila might have known Jewish immigrants in Corinth.