On Christians and Jews in Rome during the Reign of Claudius
"Because the Jews at Rome caused continuous disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [Claudius] expelled them from the city."
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves, revised J.B. Rives, Penguin Books, 2016, 228.
On Nero's Laws, Persecution of Christians
"During his [Nero’s] reign a great many public abuses were suppressed by the imposition of heavy penalties, and among the novel enactments were sumptuary laws limiting private expenditure, the substitution of a simple cash distribution for public banquets, and a decree restricting the food sold in wine shops to green vegetables, dried beans and the like -- whereas before all kinds of tasty snacks had been displayed. Punishments were inflicted on the Christians, a sect professing a new and mischievous superstition. Nero also ended the licence which the charioteers had enjoyed for so long that they claimed it as a right: to wander merrily down the streets, swindling and robbing the populace. He likewise expelled from the city all pantomime actors and their hangers-on."
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves, revised J.B. Rives, Penguin Books, 2016, 250-251.
"Because the Jews at Rome caused continuous disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [Claudius] expelled them from the city."
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves, revised J.B. Rives, Penguin Books, 2016, 228.
On Nero's Laws, Persecution of Christians
"During his [Nero’s] reign a great many public abuses were suppressed by the imposition of heavy penalties, and among the novel enactments were sumptuary laws limiting private expenditure, the substitution of a simple cash distribution for public banquets, and a decree restricting the food sold in wine shops to green vegetables, dried beans and the like -- whereas before all kinds of tasty snacks had been displayed. Punishments were inflicted on the Christians, a sect professing a new and mischievous superstition. Nero also ended the licence which the charioteers had enjoyed for so long that they claimed it as a right: to wander merrily down the streets, swindling and robbing the populace. He likewise expelled from the city all pantomime actors and their hangers-on."
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves, revised J.B. Rives, Penguin Books, 2016, 250-251.
