Four Letter-writers: Religion in Pliny, Trajan, Libanius, and JulianVeit RosenbergerReflections on Religious Individuality
He continued southward to the Persian Gulf, receiving the submission of Athambelus, the ruler of Charax, whence he declared Babylon a new province of the Empire, sent the Senate a laurelled letter declaring the war to be at a close and bemoaning that he was too old to go on any furth...
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 ...