Judæophobic

— It was at Rhodes, no doubt, that Apollonius appropriated the Judæophobic ideas of the Syrian stoic POSIDONIUS (135–51 B.C.), who lived in that city, and thence circulated throughout the Greek and Roman world several wild calumnies concerning the Jews, such as the charges that they worshiped an ass in their temple, that they sacrificed annually on their altar a specially fattened Greek, and that they were filled with hatred toward every other nationality, particularly the Greeks.