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| Edward Gibbon |
Most of you will have heard of Edward Gibbon, the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a historical oeuvre which he wrote in the late 18th century. We're reading it again, because we got hold of a better edition, and here's just one sentence from a chapter about the early Christians, and how they got prosecuted for alledgedly having arsoned the City of Rome under Nero, the emperor. And we thought: "Yes, right, MAGA":
"The voice of rumor accused the emperor as the incendiary of his own capital; and as the most incredible stories are the best adapted to the genius of an enraged people, it was gravely reported, and firmly believed, that Nero, enjoying the calamity which he had occasioned, amused himself with singing to his lyre the destruction of ancient Troy."
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