 Accordingly first those were seized who confessed they were Christians ; next on their information a vast multitude were convicted, not so much on the charge of burning the city as of hating the human race. And in their deaths they were also made the...  Italy - Page 311by John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1882 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cornelius Tacitus - Germanic peoples - 1854 - 484 pages
...the city, as of hating the human race. And in their deaths they were also made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts,...to crosses, or set fire to, and when day declined, burnt to serve for nocturnal lights.2 Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle, and exhibited... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Church history - 1856 - 184 pages
...majore turn vi famaque agebat, certantibus provinciarum et exercituum studiis. Atque ipse, ut super beasts, and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set fire to, and when day declined, burnt to serve for nocturnal lights. Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle, and exhibited... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1860 - 492 pages
...the city, as of hating the human race. And in their deaths they were also made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts,...and when day declined, burned to serve for nocturnal lights.2 Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle, and exhibited a Circensian game, indiscriminately... | |
 | Robert Burn - Rome (Italy) - 1871 - 630 pages
...tortures inflicted by Nero upon the Christians, when, as Tacitus relates, they were clothed in the skins of wild beasts, and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or sentenced to be smeared with pitch, bound to stakes, and burnt to light up the nocturnal revels of... | |
 | 1872 - 970 pages
...tortures inflicted by Nero upon the Christians, when, a« Tacitus relûtes, they were clothed in the skins of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses and left to sufler a lingering and horrible death, or smeared with pitch and burned to light up the... | |
 | 1873 - 874 pages
...Multitudes were seized and convicted; "and in their deaths they were also made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts,...day declined, burned to serve for nocturnal lights ; " for which spectacle Nero offered his own gardens. He was a minister, not of God, but of the devil... | |
 | University magazine - 1876 - 814 pages
...confessed to being Christians were seized . . . and in their deaths they were made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts...to crosses, or set fire to, and when day declined burnt to serve for lights at night." The latter punishment was adopted by Nero, the victim being clothed... | |
 | George Park Fisher - Christianity - 1877 - 620 pages
...hating the human race [odio human! generis]. And in their deaths they were made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts,...to crosses, or set fire to, and when day declined, were burned to serve for nocturnal lights. Ncro had offered his own gardens for this exhibition, and... | |
 | George Park Fisher - Christianity - 1877 - 620 pages
...hating the human race [odio human! generis]. And in their deaths they were made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts, and worried to dcalh by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set fire to, and when day declined, were burned to serve for... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Classical literature - 1878 - 438 pages
...the city as of hating the human race. And in their deaths they were also made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts...dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set fire to, and when clay declined burned to serve for nocturnal lights.t Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle,... | |
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