I processi contro i cristiani e la coerenza giuridica di Traiano

This work shows that the multi-millennial legal accusation of legal incoherence, moved by Tertullian to Trajan for having responded to Pliny that Christians must be prosecuted only upon complaint and not on the initiative of the proconsul, is not contradictory, because the emperor innovates the procedure, making the crimen publicum of Christianity as punishable in the same way as a delictum privatum, through the quaerela