indecency and immorality. The worship of Isis was introduced into the city in the days of Sulla, and, although it became very popular, the Senate soon ordered all the temples of this faith to be destroyed. The sentence against Christianity was in two counts: the Christians were regarded as atheists, and they were charged with unnatural crimes. The Lord’s Supper was called a “Thyestean Feast,” and the Christians were believed to be guilty of “Œdipodean marriages.” To the student of Greek classics