Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
![Tacitus Quote - Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/following-emporer-neros-command-let-the-christians-683x1024.jpg)
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![Tacitus Quote - In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/in-all-things-there-is-a-kind-of-law-of-cycles-lat-683x1024.jpg)
![Tacitus Quote - The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/the-powerful-hold-in-deep-remembrance-an-ill-timed-683x1024.jpg)
