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AnswerChristian tradition tells us that Nero was the first emperor to throw Christians to the lions, however this is unlikely to be true.

There may well have been instances when Christians were thrown to the lions and, if so, this would more likely have been during the Great Persecution of Emperor Diocletian, which began in 303 CE and lasted until 305 in the West, but continued until 311 in the East. Edward Gibbon ('The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'), discussing the problems in sorting fact from legend, says, "The scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church."
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