In the matter of the Jews, who had again increased so greatly that by reason of their multitude it would have been hard without raising a tumult to bar them from the City, he decided not to drive them out, but ordered them to follow that mode of life prescribed by their ancestral custom and not to assemble in numbers.—­The clubs instituted by Gaius he disbanded.—­Also, seeing that there was no use in forbidding the populace to do certain things unless their daily life should be reorganized, he abolished the taverns where they were wont to gather and drink and commanded that no dressed meat nor warm water[3] should be sold.  Some who disobeyed this ordinance were punished.

He restored to the various cities the statues which Gaius was in the habit of requiring them to send, restored also to the Dioscuri their temple and to Pompey the right of naming the theatre.  On the stage-building of the latter he inscribed also the name of Tiberius, because that emperor had rebuilt the structure when it was burned.  His own name he had chiseled there likewise (not because he had reared it but because he had dedicated it), but on no other part of the edifice.  Likewise he did not wear the triumphal garb the entire time of the games, though permission was voted to him, but appeared in it merely to offer sacrifice; the rest of the festival he superintended in the purple-bordered garment.

[-7-] He introduced in the orchestra among others knights and women who were his peers, who had been accustomed in the reign of Gaius so to appear regularly.  The reason was not that he liked their performance, but that he wanted a proof of their past behavior.  Certainly none of them was again marshaled on the stage during the era of Claudius.  The Pyrrhic dance, which the boys sent for by Gaius were practicing, they were allowed to perform once, were honored with citizenship for it, and were then dismissed.  Others, in turn, chosen from among the retinue, then gave exhibitions.—­This was what took place in theatrical circles.

In the hippodrome twelve camels and horses had one contest, and three hundred bears together with an equal number of Libyan beasts were slaughtered.  Previous to this time the different classes in attendance had watched the spectacle each from its own special location,—­senators, knights, and populace; thus it had come to be a regular practice, yet no definite positions had been assigned to them. [-8-] It was at this time that Claudius marked off the space which still belongs to the senate, and furthermore he allowed those senators who chose to view the sights somewhere else and even in citizen’s dress.  After this he banqueted the senators and their wives, the knights, and likewise the tribes.