Nero proceeded with his usual artifice. He found a set of profligate and abandoned wretches, who were induced to confess themselves guilty, and, on the evidence of such men, a number of Christians were convicted, not, indeed, upon clear evidence of their having set the city on fire, but rather on account of their sullen hatred of the whole human race.
Baina hil-oinazeei eskarnioa gehitzen zitzaien: piztia-larruz jantziarazirik, txakurrek urratuak ziruditen, edo gurutzeetan josirik, ilunkeran, erre egiten zituzten, gauez argi egin zezaten.