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The Negative Views of Christians in Tacitus

Tacitus was totally a pagan. He didn't like Nero and he didn't like Christians, and so he was just writing from,. I don't know if it's never neutral, but this more pagan perspective of Christians. Well, and it's amazing, right, that he's dismayed at Nero's excessive cruelty, not because he himself pities Christians, he thinks they deserve it. Because it was so excessive that the other people started to pity the Christians, the other Romans started to pity them.

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