[17.27] The early Christians were in fact very respectful towards Roman authority. Rom. xiii. i., &c.; I. Peter iv. 14, 16. As to St. Luke, see the Introduction to this work. [17.28] Diog. Laert. vii. 1, 32, 33; Euseb. Prepar. Evang. xv. 15, and in general the _De Legibus_ and _De Officiis_ of Cicero. [17.29] Terence, _Heautont._ I. i. 77, Cic. De Finibus Bon. et Mal., v. 23; _Partit. Orat._, 16, 24: Ovid, Fasti, ii. 684; Lucian vi. 54, &c.; Sen., Epist. xlviii, xcv. 51, &c.; De Ira, i. 5; iii. 43; Arrian. Dissert. Epict. I. ix. 6; ii. v. 26; Plut. Roman. 2; Alexander, i. 8, 9. [17.30] Virg. Eclog. iv.; Sen. Medea, 375, &c. [17.31] Tac. _Ann._ ii. 85; Suet. Tib. 35; Ovid. Fast. ii. 497-514. [17.32] he inscriptions for women contain the most touching expressions. "Mater omnium hominum, parens omnibus subveniens," in Renier, Inscr. de l'Algerie, No. 1987, Comp. ibid. No. 2756; Mommsen, Inscr. R. N., No. 1431. "Duobus virtutis et castitatis exemplis." _Not. et Mem. de la Soc. de Constantine_, 1865, p. 158. See inscription of Urbanilla in Guerin, Voy. Archéol. in Tunis, i. 289, and a beautiful one, Orelli, No. 4648. Some of these texts are subsequent to the first century; but the sentiments they express were not new when they were written. [17.33] Table-Talk I., v. 1; Demosth. 2; the Dialogue on Love, 2; and Consol. ad Uxorem. [17.34] "Caritas generis humani." Cic. _De Finibus_, v. 23. "Homo sacra res homini," Sen. Epist. xcv. 33. [17.35] Sen. Epist. xxxi., xlvii.; De Benef., iii. 18, &c. [17.36] Tac. _Ann._ xiv. 42, &c.; Suet. Claud. 25; Dion Cass. lx. 29; Plin. Ep. viii. 16; Inscr. Lanuv. col. 2 lines, 1-4 (Mommsen _De Coll et Sodal._ Rom., ad calcem); Sen. Rhet. Controv. iii. 21; vii. 6; Sen. Phil. Epist. xlvii; De Benef. iii., 18, &c, Columella. _De re rustica_, i. 8; Plut, the Elder, 5; _De Ira_, 11. [17.37] Epist. xlvii., 13. [17.38] Cato. _De re rustica_, 58, 59, 104; Plut. Cato, 4, 5. Compare the severe maxims of Ecclesiasticus xxxiii. 25, &c. [17.39] Tac. Ann. xiv. 60; Dion Cass, xlvii. 10; lx. 16; lxii. 13; lxvi. 14. Suet. Caius, 16; Appia, Bell. Civ. iv., from ch. xvii. (especially ch. xxxvi. &c), to ch. li. Juv. vi. 476, &c., describes the manners of the worst class. [17.40] Hor. Sat. i. vi. 1, &c.; Cic. Epist. iii 7; Sen. Rhet. _Controv._ i. 6. [17.41] Suet. Caius, 15, 16; Claud. 19, 23, 25; Nero, 16; Dion Cass. lx. 25-29. [17.42] Tac. _Ann._ vi. 17; comp. iv. 6. [17.43] Tac. _Ann._ xiii. 50, 51; Suet. Nero, 10.