⁷ On the monthly celebration of the king’s birthday, the Jews^[a] were taken, under bitter constraint, to partake of the sacrifices, and when a festival of Dionysus was celebrated, they were compelled to wear wreaths of ivy and to walk in the procession in honor of Dionysus.^(A)

⁴⁷ to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice pigs and other unclean animals,^(A)