notnecessarily the selfsame day of the week, unless it was the Sabbath, which possiblyPliny prefers not to mention to avoid placing Christians in a worse light by associatingthem with Jews would have encouraged the emperor to take harsher measures, the very thing Pliny's letter wished to ...
There is, of course, one letter to Trajan which has achieved world-wide fame, that in which he asks the Emperor how he wishes him to deal with the Christians who were brought before him and refused to worship the statues of the Emperor and the gods. So much has been written upon this...
Four Letter-writers: Religion in Pliny, Trajan, Libanius, and JulianVeit RosenbergerReflections on Religious Individuality