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Title: A history of Rome
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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§138) HADRIAN 127 provinces, which bore the ancient names of Armenia, Mesopotamia,and Assyria. Another province which he created in these remoteregions was known as Arabia Petrsea,1 which included the ancientBible land of Edom with its celebrated capital Petra. To Trajan belongs the distinction of having extended the bound-aries of the Empire to the most distant points to which Romanambition and prowess were ever able to push them. Respecting the rapid spread of Christianity at this time, the char-acter of the early professors of the new faith, and the light in whichthey were viewed by the rulers of the Roman world, we have veryimportant evidence in a certain letterwritten by Pliny the Younger(sect. 190) to the emperor in regard to the Christians of Pontus, inAsia Minor, of which remote province Pliny was governor. Plinyspeaks of the new creed as a contagious superstition that had seizednot cities only but the lesser towns also, and the open country. Yethe could find no fault in the

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