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 1 Int     |       Sacrilege and Disloyalty to the Emperor,— stood on a different base.
 2 Ana     |       Sacrilege and Disloyalty to the emperor. ~We shall prove that your
 3 Ana     |               us to sacrifice for the emperor's welfare. This we refuse
 4 II      | notwithstanding, consulted Trajan the Emperor6 as to what he should do
 5 II(6)   |             letter to Trajan with the Emperor's reply translated in the
 6 II(8)   |            invoking the genius of the emperor, or reviling Christ (comp.
 7 V       |          should be consecrated by the emperor without the approval of
 8 V       |             letters of the most grave Emperor Marcus Aurelius 15 be searched,
 9 V(15)   |            the Christians during this emperor's reign. Lightfoot, Ignatius,
10 V(16)   |              a persecution under this emperor referred to by Hilary of
11 XXIV    |            god, any more than that of emperor, to any one other than the
12 XXV     |           behalf of the health of the emperor Marcus, who was already
13 XXV     |               not know earlier of the emperor's decease, and then the
14 XXVIII  |               us to sacrifice for the emperor's welfare. This we refuse
15 XXVIII  |       sacrifice for the safety of the emperor; and the necessity of coercing
16 XXIX    |             to bestow health upon the emperor or any man at all, and then
17 XXIX(77)|                not of God but) of the emperor. ~
18 XXX     |               invoke on behalf of the emperor's welfare the Eternal God,
19 XXX     |               a last argument let the emperor vanquish Heaven, let him
20 XXX     |        created thing. Thence is he an emperor whence he is also a man
21 XXX     |               also a man before being emperor: thence comes his power
22 XXX     |            soul praying to God on the emperor's behalf. The prayer will
23 XXXI    |               is mere cringing to the emperor, and that the prayers of
24 XXXIII  |            the Christians towards the emperor? for we are bound to look
25 XXXIII  |               For I will not call the emperor a god, both because I cannot
26 XXXIII  |       sufficient for him to be called emperor. And a noble title indeed
27 XXXIII  |              god denies that he is an emperor. Unless he be a man he is
28 XXXIII  |              he be a man he is not an emperor. That he is a man, he is
29 XXXIV   |                I will indeed call the emperor 'lord,' but only in the
30 XXXIV   |              far is it from being the emperor's due to be called a god (
31 XXXIV   |               as if, when you have an emperor, you were to call another
32 XXXIV   |      dangerous to him whom you called emperor? Be loyal 86 towards God,
33 XXXIV   |               to be propitious to the emperor. Cease to worship or believe
34 XXXV(89)|               popular dicacity at the emperor's expense in the circus,
35 XXXV(93)|          suburbs of Rome, whither the emperor had retired for the benefit
36 XXXV    |       performing sacred rites for the emperor's welfare, and were swearing
37 XXXV    |      investigating the welfare of the emperor but he who is meditating
38 XXXVI   |               disposition towards the emperor as truly as towards all
39 XXXVI   |          demanded from us towards the emperor only. In the performance
40 XXXVI   |           unlawful in the case of the emperor, is also unlawful in the
41 App     |               PLINIUS SECUNDUS TO THE EMPEROR TRAJAN. ~IT is my constant
42 App     |              them. ~II. ~REPLY OF THE EMPEROR TRAJAN TO CAIUS PLINIUS