In the year of J. C. 48. of the vul. Æra 45.CUSPIUS FADUS, was sent after the death of Agrippa the Great to govern Judæa. As soon as he came into the Province, he ordered one Ptolemy to be hang’d, who was Captain of a band of Robbers, and plundered Judæa with impunity. After this, being informed, that one Theudas a Sorcerer, pretended to be a Prophet, and had seduced great numbers of the People, whom he had prevailed with to believe, that he would stop the course of the River Jordan with a word only, and would procure them a passage through it, without being wetshod, Fadus sent a Body of Horse against him and his followers. Many of them were killed, and the rest put to flight. Theudas was taken, and had his head cut off1 in the year of J. C. 45. Fadus was succeeded by Tiberius Alexander2 the year following, and of J. C. 46.
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