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Ananus (III)

III. ANANUS, a native of Lydda, and Captain of the Jews; who, being accused before Quadratus, as the fomenter of that division which was arisen between the Jews and Samaritans, was sent to Rome with the High Priest Ananias, to give the Emperor Claudius an account of his conductd.

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