Quote:My experience is you can spend hours riding the "scholars say..." merry-go-round talking about the details of Tacitus.
That is quite true, D-P.
It also does not change the fact that no one in in antiquity ever referred to the Tacitus passage in Annales nor did they know anything about "Nero" persecuting xtians.
I keep asking myself why that is so and I keep coming up with one answer:
The passage is a forgery.