CLAS 203 Lecture 28: CLAS 203 - Class 28 - 5th of December
26 Jan 2018
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Lecture 13: the end of the ancient world and the legacy of classical myth (continued) The governor of bithynia & pontus, pliny the younger has christians in his province; does not know what to do with them. The governor does not really know what to do so he writes to the emperor trajan. Having never been present at any trials of the christians, i am unacquainted with the method and limits to be observed either in examining or punishing them. For whatever the nature of their creed might be, i could at least feel no doubt that contumacy and inflexible obstinacy deserved chastisement. reassemble to partake of food. I therefore adjourned the proceedings, and betook myself at once to your counsel. Pliny the younger, letters to trajan 96. (c. 112 ce) The method you have pursued, my dear pliny, in sifting the cases of those denounced to you is extremely proper.
