CUMANUS, was Governor of Judæa Year of J. C. 48. of the vulgar Æra 51.after Tiberius Alexander; he committed so many Acts of injustice against the Jews, and was guilty of so much extortion, that they were obliged to lay their complaints before Quadratus, Governor of Syria, by whose order Cumanus was taken into custody, and conveyed in Chains to the Emperor Claudius at Rome, by whom Cumanus was sent into exile, and the Government of Judæa given to Claudius Felix Brother to Pallas t.
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