Amazing. The one time the monks perfectly inserted something into every copy of Tacitus, without leaving any evidence for you to point at, is that part where he says something inconvenient for you.
How many ancient copies of Tacitus do we have? 3rd-century Christians show no hint of awareness that Tacitus wrote that. So very evidently the Tacitus manuscript our copies are based on was doctored after theirs.
Why would Tacitus care that it was some obscure procurator Pilate who nailed up Jesus? But Christian interpolators considered it critically, indeed creedally, important to mention.
