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60. Zophnat, daughter of Paniel, the high priest, is sold asa slave. The seller takes her clothes off; she tears the lastgarment off, and says," Behold there is no more beautifulwoman in the world than I am."

61. The Transliteration of the Bible into Greek characterswas done by five men in the time of Ptolemos; that daywas an evil day for Israel. The translation of the Biblewas also carried out under King Ptolemos by 72 menshut up in separate cells; they introduced 18 changeswhich are all enumerated.

62. Egyptians and Jews dispute before Alexander of Mace-don. The Egyptians claim the spoil carried away by the Jewswhen they went out of Egypt. Gabiha b. Pesisa refutesthe claim of the Egyptians, saying that they had not paidanything for the work done so many hundreds of years bythe Jews and he also claimed recompeuse for the malechildren drowned in the Nile.

63. R. Akiba in prison was pressed to change his religion,which he refused to do. The wife of the governor tried totempt him, but she failed and became converted to Judaism.Then her husband hearing of it followed her example.

64. R. Johanan b. Nuri asked R. Akiba a question secretlybecause he was in prison. He disguised himself as a pedlarselling spices. Between the cries about his wares he men-tioned the question, which the people took to mean anunknown spice. R. Akiba understood it and answered it.

65. Two pupils of Rabbi Joshua disguised in time of perse-cution were recognised by an officer who disputed with themand asked them three questions which they answered cor-rectly in the same manner as R. Joshua had done.

66. Pupils of Akiba were met by robbers; they pretendedto go the same way, but separated at a safe place.

67. The son of Hananya joined a band of robbers and be-trayed them to one of the great men of Rome. They foundit out and killed him. In the funeral oration his father de-livered, he tried no comfort but recognised that the death ofhis son had been deserved. When R. Hananya was informed