History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . g since to act as did the Christians of Pliny, with otherideas, ceased to expose persons to the same peril ? Trajan, who inscribes on the penal code of Eome a new crime,that of Chrktiankhig^ attempts at the same time to consolidate the very rare. (Comptes rendus de VAcad. des inscr., 1867, p. 168.) M. de dates two ofthem in 107 and 110. (Inscr. Christ, ant., 2 and 3.) Tertiilliau expressly says : Sacrilegii et majestatis rei convenimur. Summa hœc causaimmo tota ;<t (ApoL, x.). It must b
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . g since to act as did the Christians of Pliny, with otherideas, ceased to expose persons to the same peril ? Trajan, who inscribes on the penal code of Eome a new crime,that of Chrktiankhig^ attempts at the same time to consolidate the very rare. (Comptes rendus de VAcad. des inscr., 1867, p. 168.) M. de dates two ofthem in 107 and 110. (Inscr. Christ, ant., 2 and 3.) Tertiilliau expressly says : Sacrilegii et majestatis rei convenimur. Summa hœc causaimmo tota ;<t (ApoL, x.). It must be added that the law of majesty did not only involve thepenalty of death, ))ut also torture. (Paulus, Smt., v. 2U, § 2.) Besides, Tertullian well under-stands that these two .«ocieties are absolutely incompatible with each other. The emperors,says he, would have believed in Christ, had not Cpesars been necessary to the world, or if they could have been at once Christian and Caesar Si ant Ccesares non assent sceculo necessarii, aut si et christianipotuissent Ccesares (ApoL, xxi.).. I ^?ERVA ANl- TKAJAX, U6 TO 117 823 masters of Olympus upon their crumbling thrones. In a longinscription recently discovered, we have proof of his solicitude torestore to the ancient gods their honours and to an old institutionits authority. In *the time of Strabo, JJelphi was very poor,although the domain of the temple was very rich, since a singleone of its forests of olives, on one of the spurs of Parnassus, yieldsto-day an annual revenue of 70,000 drachmas. But this domainhad been invaded on all sides by neighbouring cities, desj)ite asolemn judgment of the amphictyons who, lUO years before ourera, had fixed its limits. Trajan charged one of the great menof the Empire to have the amphictyonic decision respected assovereign law, to restore to the god his property, and to set inplace again the twenty-six consecrated boundaries.^ Was thispious zeal on his part ? Xot at all. Apollo and
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