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>Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Chrestians by the populace.
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>Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and
>a most pernicious superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil,
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>but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.