Endnote 12 – The Omnipresence of the God-Fearers

Inasmuch as the accused had been the quaestor, in effect administrative assistant, of Verres, it seems unlikely that, unless the passage in Plutarch is unhistorical, he was a Jew in the complete sense, since a Jew would have had to compromise his Jewish observance in the service of the Roman state and, ipso facto, of the state religion.