Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

" Some men he says were dragged to death while "those who did these things mimicked the sufferers like people employed in the representation of theatrical farces". Philo says he was regarded by his people as having unusual prudence due to his age education and knowledge. Philo considers Caligula's plan to erect a statue of himself in the temple of Jerusalem to be a provocation saying "Are you making war upon us because you anticipate that we will not endure such indignity but that we will fight on behalf of our laws and die in defence of our national customs? For you cannot possibly have been ignorant of what was likely to result from your attempt to introduce these innovations respecting our temple.

The only event in his life that can be decisively dated is his participation in the embassy to Rome in 40 C. Jewish Encyclopedia.