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Question: identify (give name, date, and author when known) the following two texts. Your answers for both should also comment upon from where in the text this excerpt appears, describe what the except is saying, provide information about the relevant cultural context in which it appeared, and comment upon what you see as its (either the excerpt or the text from which it is taken) overall significance. But they declared their guilt or error was simply this -- on a fixed day they used to meet before dawn and recite a hymn among themselves to Christ, as though he were a god. So far from binding themselves by oath to commit any crime, they swore to keep from theft, robbery, adultery, breach of faith, and not to deny any trust money deposited with them when called upon to deliver it. This ceremony over, they used to depart and meet again to take food -- but it was of no special character, and entirely harmless. They also had ceased from this practice after the edict I issued -- by which, in accord with your orders, I forbade all secret societies.