Thorny ones. By meeting in private houses instead of going up to the temples like honest folk, they drew attention to themselves. People who ran private meetings and did things like drinking human blood and eating human flesh confirmed suspicions that they were plotting revolution and binding themselves with sacrilege. They remained under suspicion, however emperor Trajan realised that the cannibalism was symbolic (though they couldn’t understand why anyone would want to use such cannibal symbolism), and instructed that they be left alone as long as they confined themselves to religious activity only.
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The Letters of Pliny the Younger contain a couple of interesting exchanges between Pliny, governor of Bythinia and Trajan on the subject.
