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PERSECUTION OF TRAJAN. 53<br />

quod ipsum facere desisse post edictum meum, quo secundum mandata<br />

tua hetaerias esse vetueram. Quo magis necessarium credidi ex duabus<br />

ancillis, quae ministrae dicebantur, quid esset veri et per tormenta<br />

quaerere. Nihil aliud inveni quam superstitionem pravam immodicam.<br />

5 Ideo dilata cognitione ad consulendum te decucurri. Visa est enim<br />

niihi res digna consultatione, maxime propter periclitantium numerum.<br />

Multi enim omnis aetatis, omnis ordinis, utriusque sexus etiam, vocantur<br />

in periculum et vocabuntur. Neque<br />

civitates tantum sed vicos etiam<br />

atque agros superstitionis istius contagio pervagata est ; quae videtur<br />

lo sisti et corrigi posse. Certe satis constat prope iam desolata templa<br />

coepisse celebrari et sacra soUemnia diu intermissa repeti pastumque<br />

venire victimarum, cuius adhuc rarissimus emptor inveniebatur. Ex<br />

quo facile est opinari quae turba hominum emendari possit,<br />

poenitentiae locus.<br />

si sit<br />

15 Trajanus Plinio.<br />

Actum quem debuisti, mi Secunde, in excutiendis causis eorum qui<br />

Christiani ad te delati fuerant secutus es. Neque enim in universum<br />

For their connexion with forbidden religions<br />

guilds above, p. sq.<br />

dvaTpoirr]V Kal rots avedrjv /xi^eis Kal dvOpwweluv<br />

to clubs or see 18 runi.<br />

(rapKwi> /3opdj (comp. §§ 10, 23, ig,<br />

in the heathen mind, see Dion<br />

Apol. ii. 12, Dial. 10, 17), Ep. Vienn. et Cass. Iii.<br />

36 Kaiva riva daifiovia oi toiov-<br />

Lugd. 14 (in Eus. H. E. v. i) KareipevaavTo<br />

TOL dvTea(pipovTe% ttoWovs dvairddovaw<br />

7]/xuv QvicrreLa delTrva Kal OidiTro-<br />

dWoTpiovofielv, KaK tovtov /cat avviOfjLocriai.<br />

deiovi (jLl^eis k.t.X. (comp. Iren. Fragm. Kai

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