«It is generally believed that Josephus is speaking of one Epaphroditus who lived in the reign of Trajan and was a freedman and procurator of this emperor». Leonhard Schmitz, Epaphroditus, in William Smith (a cura di), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 2, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1867, p. 24 (archiviato dall'url originale il 20 giugno 2009).