[6] Such gentle treatment insensibly assuaged the stern temper of the Jews.
Awakened from their dream of prophecy and conquest, they assumed the behavior of peaceable and industrious subjects.

Their irreconcilable hatred of mankind, instead of flaming out in acts of blood and violence, evaporated in less dangerous gratifications.

They embraced every opportunity of overreaching the idolaters in trade; and they pronounced secret and ambiguous imprecations against the haughty kingdom of Edom.
[7] [Footnote 4: It is to Modestinus, a Roman lawyer (l.vi.

regular.) that we are indebted for a distinct knowledge of the Edict of Antoninus.

See Casaubon ad Hist.August.p.