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They show us the actual working of the Roman provincial administration , though
doubtless under somewhat exceptional circumstances , and in a province of
secondary importance . The governors of Bithynia were not concerned with
properly ...
They show us the actual working of the Roman provincial administration , though
doubtless under somewhat exceptional circumstances , and in a province of
secondary importance . The governors of Bithynia were not concerned with
properly ...
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... the proconsular power of the emperors , as maius imperium , would overrule
theirs . ' Page 100 , heading of Ep . xi : instead of Media , ' read ' Medici . '
INTRODUCTION LIFE OF TRAJAN MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS , Roman
emperor.
... the proconsular power of the emperors , as maius imperium , would overrule
theirs . ' Page 100 , heading of Ep . xi : instead of Media , ' read ' Medici . '
INTRODUCTION LIFE OF TRAJAN MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS , Roman
emperor.
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INTRODUCTION LIFE OF TRAJAN MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS , Roman
emperor from 98 - 117 A . D . , was born at ... but of the Ulpian gens , Trajan ' s
father , M . Ulpius Traianus , was the first who attained to curule office at Rome
and ...
INTRODUCTION LIFE OF TRAJAN MARCUS ULPIUS TRAIANUS , Roman
emperor from 98 - 117 A . D . , was born at ... but of the Ulpian gens , Trajan ' s
father , M . Ulpius Traianus , was the first who attained to curule office at Rome
and ...
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... that Trajan showed those qualities which afterwards made him the hero of his
soldiers . In 78 , with a military experience and reputation greater than that of
most of his contemporaries , Trajan returned to Rome , and during the last years
of ...
... that Trajan showed those qualities which afterwards made him the hero of his
soldiers . In 78 , with a military experience and reputation greater than that of
most of his contemporaries , Trajan returned to Rome , and during the last years
of ...
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For the next six years we know nothing of Trajan ' s position , though from one
passage of the Panegyrica he seems to have lived at Rome and shared the
dangers of Domitian ' s reign of terror . But if he was passed over by Domitian ...
For the next six years we know nothing of Trajan ' s position , though from one
passage of the Panegyrica he seems to have lived at Rome and shared the
dangers of Domitian ' s reign of terror . But if he was passed over by Domitian ...
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Page 214 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.
Page 54 - Ergo abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos et quaesitissimis poenis adfecit, quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat. Auctor nominis eius Christus Tiberio imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat...
Page 215 - Visa est enim mihi res digna consultatione, maxime propter periclitantium numerum. Multi enim omnis aetatis, omnis ordinis, utriusque sexus etiam, vocantur in periculum, et vocabuntur. Neque civitates tantum, sed vicos etiam atque agros superstitionis istius contagio pervagata est : quae videtur sisti et corrigi posse.
Page 214 - ... stato die ante lucem convenire, carmenque Christo, quasi deo, dicere secum invicem, seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere. sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent: quibus peractis morem sibi discedendi fuisse, rursusque coeundi ad capiendum cibum, promiscuum tamen, et innoxium : quod ipsum facere desisse post edictum meum, quo secundum mandata tua hetaerias esse vetueram.
Page 212 - Interim in iis, qui ad me tamquam Christi5 ani deferebantur, hunc sum secutus modum. Interrogavi ipsos, an essent Christiani. Confitentes iterum ac tertio interrogavi, supplicium minatus: perseverantes duci iussi. Neque enim dubitabam, qualecumque esset, quod faterentur, pertinaciam certe et inflexibilem obstinationem debere puniri.
Page 212 - Nec mediocriter haesitavi, sitne aliquod discrimen aetatum, an quamlibet teneri nihil a robustioribus differant, detur paenitentiae venia, an ei, qui omnino Christianus fuit, desisse non prosit, nomen ipsum, si flagitiis careat, an flagitia cohaerentia nomini puniantur.
Page 213 - Propositus est libellus sine auctore multorum nomina continens. Qui negabant esse se Christianos aut fuisse, cum praeeunte me deos appellarent et imagini tuae, quam propter hoc iusseram cum simulacris numinum adferri, ture 15 ac vino supplicarent, praeterea male dicerent Christo, quorum nihil posse cogi dicuntur, qui sunt re vera Christiani, dimittendos esse putavi.
Page 54 - ... et pereuntibus addita ludibria, ut ferarum tergis contecti laniatu canum interirent aut crucibus adfixi [aut flammandi atque], ubi defecisset dies, in usu[m] nocturni luminis urerentur.
Page 53 - And he abode two whole years in his own hired dwelling, and 31 received all that went in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding him.
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| Title | C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistulae ad Traianum imperatorem cum eiusdem responsis |
| Author | Plinius (d.y.) |
| Editor | Ernest George Hardy |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1889 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 251 pages |
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