But indeed, when Caius had held the rule not even four full years, the emperor Claudius succeeded him. In his time, a famine pressed upon the inhabited world — a thing which even writers far removed from our account have handed down in their own histories — and the prediction in the Acts of the Apostles, made by the prophet Agabus concerning the famine that was to come upon the whole inhabited world, reached its fulfilment.
And Luke, having noted in the Acts the famine in the time of Claudius, and having related how the brethren at Antioch, through Paul and Barnabas, had sent relief to those in Judaea, each according to his ability, goes on to say: