Some 200-300 of the 3,000 then living in Rome were put to the death. According to Tacitus...
Tacitus was a frustrated 'inner-circle' wannbe; as a result he had an axe to grind. For at least the last 100 years historians have known this, and so take Tactitus' writings with a healthy grain of salt.
25 posted on 12/10/2001 10:42:27 AM PST by yankeedame