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Page 32
... Tacitus says of the Jewish , was more applicable to the heathen establishment ; " Hi ritus , quoquo modo inducti , antiquitate defen- duntur . " It was also a splendid and sumptuous worship . It had its priesthood , its endowments , its ...
... Tacitus says of the Jewish , was more applicable to the heathen establishment ; " Hi ritus , quoquo modo inducti , antiquitate defen- duntur . " It was also a splendid and sumptuous worship . It had its priesthood , its endowments , its ...
Page 40
... Tacitus , well known to every scholar , must be inserted , as deserv- ing particular attention . The reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions ...
... Tacitus , well known to every scholar , must be inserted , as deserv- ing particular attention . The reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death , and that it relates to transactions ...
Page 43
... Tacitus , describing the transactions of the same reign , uses these words : " Affecti sup- pliciis Christiani , genus hominum supersti- tionis novæ et maleficæ * " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mischievous ( or magical ) ...
... Tacitus , describing the transactions of the same reign , uses these words : " Affecti sup- pliciis Christiani , genus hominum supersti- tionis novæ et maleficæ * " The Christians , a set of men of a new and mischievous ( or magical ) ...
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... Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it should seem , to commemorate the cruelties exer- cised under Nero's government , has the following lines * " Pope Tigellinum , tædâ lucebis ...
... Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it should seem , to commemorate the cruelties exer- cised under Nero's government , has the following lines * " Pope Tigellinum , tædâ lucebis ...
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... Tacitus of the species of pu- nishment which they were made to un- dergo , I think it sufficiently probable , that these were the executions to which the poet refers . These things , as has already been ob- served , took place within ...
... Tacitus of the species of pu- nishment which they were made to un- dergo , I think it sufficiently probable , that these were the executions to which the poet refers . These things , as has already been ob- served , took place within ...
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