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Annonâ et spectaculis indeed! Antipas knew the dictum well; and with an uprising in the yonderland, and a sedition under his feet, what more could he do than quell the first with his mercenaries, and disarm the second with his games? Tiberius, whom he emulated, never deigned to appear at the hippodrome; it was a way he had of showing his contempt for a nation.
De Spectaculis, II. Against Marcion, I, 17. Ibid., V, 16. This is to justify his doctrine of the punishment of the heathen. Scapula, II. Against Celsus, I, 23. Plea for the Christians, XV, XVI. I, 5 and 6. Exhortation to the Heathen, X. Divine Institutes, III, 20. Chap. Treatise on the Anger of God, X. E.g., Stirling: Philosophy and Theology, p. 179. Trypho, III, IV. Stromata, V, 14.
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