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Cicero, On behalf of Balbus 31

On the granting of Roman citizenship to a foreigner from a federate city.

Cicero, On the Laws II.3-5

On the two patriae

Cicero, On the reply of the haruspices 19

On the superiority of the Romans because of their religious beliefs and their pietas.

Claudian, On the Consulship of Stilicho III.130-161

Praise of Rome

Codex Theodosianus XVI.10.12 (8th November 392 CE)

Prohibition of any rituals of pagan cult

Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum (Comparison of Mosaic and Roman Laws) VII.1.1-2

The punishment of thieves

Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum (Comparison of Mosaic and Roman Laws), extracts

Roman laws and biblical laws

Commentary on Daniel IV.9

Christian citizenship and Roman citizenship

Commentary on Daniel IV.8

The Romans are not a nation but they are made for waging wars

Cyprian, Address to Demetrianus V

The suffering of the empire is due to Roman religious ignorance

Cyprian, Address to Demetrianus VIII

The irony of Roman lordship

Cyprian, Epistle LXXXI I (some editions list at Epistle LXXX)

The treatment of prominent Romans found to be Christians

Cyprian, Epistle to Donatus X

The criminality that pervades Roman law

Cyprian, On the Lapsed VIII

The eagerness of lapsed Christians to sacrifice under the Decian edict

Cyprian, On the Lapsed XXVII

Christians who have acquired fake certificates of pagan sacrifice

Cyprian, On the Vanity of Idols V

Rome’s shameful origins

Dialogue on the True Faith XXI

That persecution of Christians under the Romans cannot be attributed to an inferior deity

Digest XLVIII.8.11 (Modestinus, Legal Rules VI)

Antoninus Pius’s ban on circumcision for non-Jews

Digest XLVIII.8.4 (Ulpianus, On the office of the Proconsul VII)

Hadrian’s ban on castration

Dio Chrysostom, Speeches XLI.8-10

Praise of Rome’s generosity regarding the grant of its citizenship and its sense of justice.

Judaism and Rome