History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . nd his own gardens. îSheds werehastily erected to shelter the most needy,furniture was brought from Dstia and adjacenttowns, and the price of corn was reduced tothree sesterces the modius. However, as the poor had really sufferedmuch, and as the crowd always require aculprit, the enqjeror was held responsible forthe fire, as he had been for the previousfamine, liesides this, there were persons interested in propagatingdiimagiug rumours to destroy Xeros popularity with the lowerclasses : the conspiracy
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . nd his own gardens. îSheds werehastily erected to shelter the most needy,furniture was brought from Dstia and adjacenttowns, and the price of corn was reduced tothree sesterces the modius. However, as the poor had really sufferedmuch, and as the crowd always require aculprit, the enqjeror was held responsible forthe fire, as he had been for the previousfamine, liesides this, there were persons interested in propagatingdiimagiug rumours to destroy Xeros popularity with the lowerclasses : the conspiracy of Piso was in full career, and thoseex-consuls who were seen,^ it was said, in the midst of thecrowd, exciting the public fury, Avere no doubt acting in theinterests of that conspiracy. By an ingenious turn, the govern-ment directed public suspicion into another channel, and suppliedvictims for the popular anger by accusing the Christians of lia\ingset fire to the city. This new sect was by the crowd confused with that of theJews. Whether Christian or Je\f they were seen to pray in the. Iorf of Ostia. Inifium in ea parte Circi ubi per tabernns, quibiis id mercimuniujn iiwraf quo J/tntinid nlittir, .timid cœj)tus it/ni.: et statim validns ac veiitv eitiis (Tac, Ann., xv. 38). Tacituswas eig-ht or nine o\A at this time (Borghesi, vii. ^Il). ? JIuc ill lie per iii>cte)ii (Tac, Aiui., xv. 50). ^ AVGVST. SC. POR. OST. Larpre bronze of Xero, representinji-the circuit of tlic walLsof O.^ha and .seven ; within. Nero repaired or perhaps linished this port. After the of the plot, one of the conspirator.^, questioned by Nero himself,answered: I hate , as a parricide and an incendiary. (Tac, Ann., xv. 67. Cf. , ii. 7.) NERO, 13 OCTOBER, 54 TO 9 JUNE, 68 507 synagogues and to worship the same God, from whom they hadreceived the same sign of their election, that baptism of bloodwhose scar was yet borne by m
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