people
The Jews
the Jews
also: the Syrian Jew
People whose seventh-day sabbath rest Ovid notes as a day when business slackens at Rome.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.3 the Syrian Jew
The Jews, whose seventh-day sabbath rest Ovid lists among Rome's crowd-drawing observances.
- The Cure for Love §8 the foreign Sabbath
The Jewish Sabbath, observed at Rome; Ovid lists it among the superstitious pretexts a reluctant traveler might invoke to stay.