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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To
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Ernst.] [Footnote 38: Principatum Divi Nervae, et imperium Trajani, uberiorem, securioremque materiam senectuti seposui.Tacit.Hist.

i.] [Footnote 39: See Tacit.Annal.ii.61, iv.4.

* Note: The perusal of this passage of Tacitus alone is sufficient, as I have already said, to show that the Christian sect was not so obscure as not already to have been repressed, (repressa,) and that it did not pass for innocent in the eyes of the Romans .-- G.] [Footnote 40: The player's name was Aliturus.

Through the same channel, Josephus, (de vita sua, c.


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