Suetonius

Suetonius (AD 70-160)

Roman historian of the Imperial House.

In Vita Nero 16.11–13 his biography of Nero (Nero ruled AD 54-68), he mentions the persecution of Christians by indirectly referring to the resurrection: “Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition [the resurrection].”