Word: pontius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first is in a letter of Pliny to the Emperor Trajan. Pliny was the governor of the province of Bethinia and had been much troubled by certain men possessed of a strange and criminal superstition, a belief in a certain Christus who had been crucified by Pontius Pilate. Pliny had executed all men who said that they were Christians, but he was in great doubt as to what to do with those who had been Christians and then had repented of their folly. Other passages relative to the Christians are found in Tacitus, describing the persecutions of Nero; in Suetonius...