a Passienus the son killed by the treachery of his own heir. 1 * 1 a This is Claudius the paternal uncle of Drusus, who has a monument at Moguntiacum: elsewhere I have read that he was the maternal uncle, because he was the brother of the mother of Gaius. * 4 41
3 b Gaius took the wife of Memmius Regulus, forcing him to write that he (Memmius) was the father of his wife. 2 39
2 b Peter the Apostle , by nation a Galilean, first high priest of the Christians, after he had been the first to found a church at Antioch, proceeded to Rome, where as bishop of the same city he remains, preaching the gospel for 25 years. 5 42
c Pontius Pilate, falling into many calamities, killed himself by his own hand: so the historians of the Romans write.
3 c Mark the evangelist, Peter's interpreter, preaches Christ in Egypt and Alexandria. 6 43
d Gaius ordered Petronius, prefect of Syria, to place his statue in Jerusalem under the name of Jupiter Optimus Maximus: which the Jews refused to do with the utmost obstinacy.
2060 4 d Evodius is ordained the first bishop of Antioch. 7 44
e Agrippa, king of the Judeans, having ruled 7 years, dies. After him, his son Agrippa is placed in power by Claudius.
e In the whole Roman world, as Philo and Josephus write, statues and images and altars of Gaius Caesar consecrated in the synagogues of the Jews. Of the Jews, Agrippa, for 26 years.
f The prophecy of Agabus, who had said in the Acts of the Apostles that there would be a famine in the whole world, came true under Claudius.
4 f Many of the nobles killed by Gaius. 3 40
g Gaius condemnedhis sisters, whom he had brought into unchastity, to exile on islands. (*)
g Claudius celebrated a triumph over the Britons and added the Orkney islands to the Roman empire. In celebration of this glory he named his son Britannicus. (*)
h Gaius ordered all the exiles to be killed.
i Gaius is slain by his bodyguards on the Palatine in the 29th year of his life.
h Domitius Afer of Nimes is considered a
(1) In the Merton manuscript there is a space following. In the Patrologia Latina , there follows this entry: Matthew in Judaea is the first to write a gospel.
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brilliant orator; afterward, when Nero was emperor, he dies from overeating at a meal. * 207th Olympiad
9 a A famine having occurred in Greece, a bushel of wheat was sold for six drachmas. 4 5 49
a Claudius Quirinalis, a rhetor from Arles, teaches most notably at Rome. * 10 b Great famine at Rome. 5 6 50
c Claudius sends Felix to Judea as procurator, before whom the apostle Paul, standing accused, delivers a speech in his own defense. 6
206th Olympiad 11 7 51
5 b Between Thera and Therasia an island rose up that was 30 stades across. 1 45