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Paulinus

PAULINUS, the Successor of Lupus in the Government of the City of Alexandria, and of Egypt for the Romans. He obliged the Priests of the Temple, that Onias had built at Heliopolis, and which we have spoke of under the Name of Onion, to put into his Hands all the Ornaments and Vessels of Value which were therein, and then caused the Doors to be shut up, and forbid the Jews to perform any Act of their religious Worship therein1.

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  1. Joseph. de Bello, l. vii. c. 37. p. 996. ↩

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