I.22 For every day saw fresh pieces of trickery which also affected those priests who dwelt in regions which paid tribute to the palace. If perchance someone, as is the custom in sermons to the people of God, had named Pharaoh, Nabuchodonosor, Holofernis or someone similar, they accused him of having said such things against the person of the king, and immediately drove him into exile.
(trans. Moorhead 1992, 11)