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from their altars to the very ground: and that the oracles, or answers which these gods, or rather devils, used to give them, ceased, and never answered afterwards.
In the first year after Christ's birth, many strange things happened in Germany, and in Rome, and a terrible eclipse of the sun. At the twelfth year of his age be disputed with the doctors, and at that time there appeared a terrible comet, so that the light of the sun apparently failed, the heavens seemed to burn, and fire beams fell from them. In the twenty second year of his age, several bloody comets were seen, and the river Tiber overflowed the city of Rome.
Publius Lentullis' Epistle to Rome concerning Christ.
"There appeared in those days a man of great virtue called Jesus Christ, who is yet living among us, and by the people is called a prophet; but his own disciples call him the Son of God. He raiseth the dead, cureth all manner of diseases; a man of stature, somewhat tall and comely, with a reverend countenance, such as the beholders may both fear and love; his hair is of the colour of a chestnut full ripe, and plain down almost to his ears, but from thence downward some-what curled, but more orient of colours, waving about his shoulders; in the midst of his head goeth a seam of hair, or parting, like that of the Nazarites: his forehead very
