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... readings which I subjoin to each page are in a great measure taken from Keil's edition , not blindly , however , for I have carefully collated the editions of Avantius and Aldus , and , less thoroughly , the first edition of Catanaeus ...
... readings which I subjoin to each page are in a great measure taken from Keil's edition , not blindly , however , for I have carefully collated the editions of Avantius and Aldus , and , less thoroughly , the first edition of Catanaeus ...
Page 75
... readings being ' in all the best MSS . ' One or two of the letters were also published in the selection of Pritchard and Bernard , Clarendon Press , 1875 and 1887 . Of translations , the two best are that of Melmoth , revised by ...
... readings being ' in all the best MSS . ' One or two of the letters were also published in the selection of Pritchard and Bernard , Clarendon Press , 1875 and 1887 . Of translations , the two best are that of Melmoth , revised by ...
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... reading of Avan- tius and Aldus , and seems distinctly pre- ferable to Ernesti's maluerunt . hoc potius tempore patrem fieri : cf. Panegyr . § 26 , ' Super omnia est tamen quod talis es ut sub te liberos tollere libeat expediat ...
... reading of Avan- tius and Aldus , and seems distinctly pre- ferable to Ernesti's maluerunt . hoc potius tempore patrem fieri : cf. Panegyr . § 26 , ' Super omnia est tamen quod talis es ut sub te liberos tollere libeat expediat ...
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... reading ' censuisses ' would imply , the words at the end of the letter , ' opto ut existimes constare rationem would be needless . nomina nostra in urnam conici . The procedure seems to have been this : when a governor was accused of ...
... reading ' censuisses ' would imply , the words at the end of the letter , ' opto ut existimes constare rationem would be needless . nomina nostra in urnam conici . The procedure seems to have been this : when a governor was accused of ...
Page 84
... reading of the passage , he was ' flamen Hispaniae citeri- oris ' : : a condiscipulus and contubernalis of Pliny , who obtained for him from Nerva the ius trium liberorum , and in ii 13 asks for some appointment for him from Nera- tius ...
... reading of the passage , he was ' flamen Hispaniae citeri- oris ' : : a condiscipulus and contubernalis of Pliny , who obtained for him from Nerva the ius trium liberorum , and in ii 13 asks for some appointment for him from Nera- tius ...
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Popular passages
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.