Since no one in antiquity - xtian or otherwise - ever makes reference to that passage the odds are that he didn't.
What we do know is that the only manuscript we have initially said "Chrestianos" not "christianos" until helped along by some unknown scribe. The change is clearly visible under ultraviolet light.
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So, given that no xtian writer ever heard of or used this passage and with the obvious alteration it would seem that Tacitus probably wrote something about Chrestus and the Chrestians, which we know about from Suetonius being active in Rome during the reign of Claudius.
Now I know that every xtian fucker jerks off to Tacitus but it is probably worth mentioning that even this interpolated passage does not mention anyone named "jesus."
I bet that won't even slow you down.
What we do know is that the only manuscript we have initially said "Chrestianos" not "christianos" until helped along by some unknown scribe. The change is clearly visible under ultraviolet light.
So, given that no xtian writer ever heard of or used this passage and with the obvious alteration it would seem that Tacitus probably wrote something about Chrestus and the Chrestians, which we know about from Suetonius being active in Rome during the reign of Claudius.
Now I know that every xtian fucker jerks off to Tacitus but it is probably worth mentioning that even this interpolated passage does not mention anyone named "jesus."
I bet that won't even slow you down.
