Herod, while in Aquileia in 12 BCE, had obtained from Augustus the lease copper mining rights on Cyprus, after which many Jews emigrate to the island.
"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."
—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)
