The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians

part in the Circusian games; himself standing in the circus, and, as

charioteer, guiding a chariot.

These proceedings, according to the testimony of Tacitus, although it had the appearance that the Christians were punished as malefactors who had deserved the extremest penalty, nevertheless moved the people to compassion; for they understood well enough that the Christians were...