 the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. He put an end to the diversions of the chariot drivers, who from immunity of long standing claimed the right of ranging at large and amusing themselves by cheating and robbing...  Suetonius - Pagina 109di Suetonius - 1914Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Beresford James Kidd - 1920 - 330 pagine
...was forbidden, whereas before every sort of dainty wa.s exposed for sale. Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and...actors and their partisans were banished from the city.—Ibid. ii. in. No. 39. Heathenism the Work of Demons From Justin [f 163], Apology \c. 150-5],... | |
 | Stephen Benko - 1986 - 198 pagine
...and vegetables, whereas before every sort of dainty was exposed for sale. Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and...actors and their partisans were banished from the city. (Nero 16.2J¿' Suetonius called Christianity a “new and mischievous superstition” (superstitio... | |
 | Merrill C. Tenney - 1985 - 490 pagine
...through the city of Rome also. . Suetonius' testimony is brief: 3 Punishment [by Nerol was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. The younger Pliny, who was a correspondent ofTrajan, spoke in one of his letters of the Christians... | |
 | Richard L. Niswonger - 1992 - 340 pagine
...practices ended by Nero. in his list of reforms, Suetonius notes that “punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.” 24 Another Roman historian, Tacitus (AD. 60—120), describes Nero's persecution of the Christians... | |
 | Paul L. Maier - 1991 - 468 pagine
...secular and Christian sources are not silent. Suetonius writes that “Punishments were also inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition” (Nero, xvi). Cp. also Sulpicius Severus, Chronka, ii,z 9 , and the earlier Christian tradition on this... | |
 | Paul L. Maier - 460 pagine
...secular and Christian sources are not silent. Suetonius writes that “Punishments were also inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition” (Nero, xvi). Cp. also Sulpicius Severus, Chronica, ii,z 9 , and the earlier Christian tradition on... | |
 | Peter Sch fer - 2009 - 330 pagine
...immodica); this "contagious superstition" (superstitionis istius contagio); and Suetonius, Nero, XVI, 2: "the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition" (genus hominum superstitionis novae ac maleficae). 76. Ibid., XV, 44:4. 77. See above, Chapter i. 78.... | |
 | William Barclay - 1960 - 436 pagine
...vegetables, whereas, before, every kind of dainty was exposed for sale. Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and...superstition. He put an end to the diversions of the chariot-drivers, who from immunity of long standing claimed the right of ranging at large and amusing... | |
 | Suetonius - 2004 - 534 pagine
...vegetables, whereas before every sort of dainty was exposed for sale. 45 Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and...actors and their partisans were banished from the city. 46 XVII. It was in his reign that a protection against forgers was first devised, by having no tablets... | |
 | Wayne Campbell Kannaday - 2004 - 290 pagine
...account of the reign of Nero (Nero 16.2), reports among other things, "Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition." Both P. Labriolle and S. Benko rightly observe that what 83 See P. Labriolle, La Réaction païenne,... | |
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