03-09-2006, 04:53 PM
Quote:As I recall they auriliaries in Judea were Samaritans rather than Jews and therefore there was a lot of animosityPlease not the difference between Samaritans and Samarians. Samarians are people from the city of Samaria, who had Roman citizenship and were also called Sebastiani; Samaritans are members of a religious community. (Cf. Roman Catholics, who are not necessarily living in Rome.)
[url:2dbod2h5]http://www.livius.org/saa-san/samaria/samaritans.htm[/url]
[url:2dbod2h5]http://www.livius.org/saa-san/samaria/samarians.htm[/url]