id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt doi-org-1193 Legislation against the Christians* | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core .html text/html 7965 1151 80 N., 'The Early Persecutions and Roman Law Again', JTS N.S. III (1952), 199 ff.Google Scholar, reprinted with slight additions at The Letters of Pliny (1966), 772 ff.; Wlosok, A., 'Die Rechtsgrundlagen der Christenverfolgungen der ersten zwei Jahrhunderte', Gymnasium LXVI (1959), 14 ffGoogle Scholar. But Suetonius does not explicitly state either that the executions occurred in Rome or that Christianity was at that time just beginning to gain a hold in the capital: both facts, however, appear in Tacitus, , Ann. XV, 44Google Scholar. 85 Eusebius, , HE V, 21Google Scholar, 3, it is true, states that the accuser of Apollonius was executed: but see below, pp. 90 For the date, and the possibility that the emperor is not Marcus, see JTS n.s. XIX (1968), 518Google Scholar. But the 'new decrees' seem to have mentioned the Christians in particular, not just criminals in general (see Eusebius, , HE IV, 26Google Scholar, 5). ./cache/doi-org-1193.html ./txt/doi-org-1193.txt