Apion 1 finished

Behind, but still in the neighborhood. Finished Contra Apionem Book 1 tonight. Some interesting things in the rest of Book 1 were:

• description of the temple from Hecataeus of Abdera (late 300s BC; Ap. 1.197-99)
• fun story of Ptolemy (I think) marching toward Egypt but his army stops because of an omen--a bird. A Jew gets tired of waiting and shoots down the bird with an arrow to the horror of all. Then he suggests that if the bird could tell the future, it would have known better than to hang around a Jew with a bow (1.201-4).
• description of sabbath observance and worship from someone named Agatharchides (1.209)
• famous depiction of exodus by the Egyptian Manetho, where the Jews were mostly a leper colony (1.229)
• Josephus swears "by Zeus" in 255!

The schedule for book two is:

Jan. 23: 2.1-34
Jan. 24: 2.35-68
Jan. 25: 2.69-102
Jan. 26: 2.102-36
Jan. 27: 2.137-70
Jan. 28: 2:171-204
Jan. 29: 2.205-38
Jan. 30: 2.239-72
Jan. 31: 2.273-96