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Aliturus
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Aliturus

Alityros (also spelled Aliturus) was a Jewish mime actor associated with the court of Roman emperor Nero in the 1st century CE. Josephus credits Alityros with arranging an introduction to Empress Poppaea Sabina, who interceded on behalf of Jewish priests whom the procurator Antonius Felix had sent to Rome for trial.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 934145.