Now Domitian, having displayed great cruelty toward many, and having put to death no small number of the nobles and notable men at Rome without reasonable judgement, and having punished countless other illustrious men, without cause, with banishment beyond the borders and with the loss of their property, at last established himself as the successor of Nero's enmity toward God and warfare against God. He was indeed the second to stir up the persecution against us, although his father Vespasian had devised nothing amiss against us.