Note 004 A Jewish sect, which indulged themselves in a sort of occasional conformity, derived from Herod by whose example and authority they had been seduced, the name of Herodians. But their numbers were so inconsiderable, and their duration so short, that Josephus has not thought them worthy of his notice. See Prideaux's Connection, vol. ii. p. 285.

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Note to Chapter 15 of DECLINE and FALL by Gibbon