 | John Allen Giles - Church history - 1856 - 184 pages
...habit of a charioteer, or else standing in his chariot. Whence a feeling of compassion arose towards the sufferers, though guilty and deserving to be made...the public good, but victims to the ferocity of one man. Flavius Vespasian, (whom Nero had appointed general) was carrying on the Jewish war with three... | |
 | George Park Fisher - Christianity - 1877 - 620 pages
...standing in his chariot. Whence a feeling of compassion arose towards the sufferers, though guilty, because they seemed not to be cut off for the public good, but as victims to the ferocity of one man." * That Tacitus was not mistaken as to the class of persons... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Classical literature - 1878 - 438 pages
...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, and...for the public good, but victims to the ferocity of Suetonius, a contemporary of Tacitus, appears to have been born in the reign of Vespasian. His literary... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Classical literature - 1879 - 446 pages
...for nocturnal lights. t Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle, and exhibited a Circensiau game, indiscriminately mingling with the common people...for the public good, but victims to the ferocity of Suetonius, a contemporary of Tacitus, appears to have been born in the reign of Vespasian. His literary... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Italy - 1882 - 674 pages
...in the habit of a charioteer, or else standing in his chariot. Whence a feeling of compassion rose toward the sufferers, though guilty and deserving...the public good, but victims to the ferocity of one man." It would seem that the whole Roman empire was plundered by Nero to obtain money to rebuild Rome.... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1882 - 896 pages
...reins. Whence a feeling of compassion arose towards the sufferers, though justly held to be oilious, because they seemed not to be cut off for the public good, but as victims to the ferocity of one man." The account of SUETOXIUS, Nero, c. 1(5, is very short and unsatisfactory... | |
 | George Bate (F.S.S.) - Apologetics - 1883 - 212 pages
...habit of a charioteer, or else standing in his chariot. Whence a feeling of compassion arose towards the sufferers, though guilty and deserving to be made...the public good, but victims to the ferocity of one man." (a) It is interesting to compare with this narrative certain lines in the first satire of JUVENAL,... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - Classical literature - 1888 - 446 pages
...for nocturnal lights.t Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle, and exhibited a Circeusian game, indiscriminately mingling with the common people...the public good, but victims to the ferocity of one man." Suetonius, a contemporary of Tacitus, appears to have been born in the reign of Vespasian. His... | |
 | Philip Stafford Moxom - Church history - 1895 - 522 pages
...however, begotten by the brutality of Nero, and a feeling of compassion toward the sufferers arose " because they seemed not to be cut off for the public good, but victims to the ferocity of one man." This was the first pagan persecution of the Christians, and was confined to Rome. One of its... | |
 | Theology - 1913 - 638 pages
...lights. Whence a feeling of compassion arose toward the sufferers, though justly held to be odious because they seemed not to be cut off for the public good, but as victims to the ferocity of one man." We must confess we grow just a trifle indignant when we read... | |
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... declined, burned to serve for nocturnal lights. Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle, and exhibited a Circensian game, indiscriminately mingling with the common people in the habit of a charioteer, or else standing in his chariot. Whence... 
