• Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

    Suetonius: Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
    Suetonius (1997). “Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men”, Loeb Classical Library