e The Pantheon in Rome burned down by lightning.
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14 a After Justus, Zachaeus received the 4th episcopate of the Church of Jerusalem. After him, 5th is Tobias, to whom succeeds 6th Benjamin, and then 7th John and 8th Matthias, into whose place Philip is appointed 9th. 111 a Trajan perishes in an illness at Selinus, or as I discover in someone else's text, he died at Isaurian Seleucia, the result of dysentery, in the sixty-third year, ninth month, and fourth day of his age. His bones were collected in a golden urn and placed in the Forum at the base of (his) column: and alone of all (the emperors) was he interred within the City 1 . (*)
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16 b Trajan made Armenia, Assyria and Mesopotamia into provinces. * 113 224th Olympiad
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c An earthquake at Antioch ruined almost the entire city.
1 b Hadrian, born at Italica in Spain, was the son of Trajan's female cousin. * 117
2130 17 d The Jews, who were in Libya, fight against their foreign-born neighbors. Likewise in Egypt, in Alexandria, and even Cyrene and the Thebaid, they struggle with great rebellion; but a portion of the gentiles defeat (them) in Alexandria. 114
c Hadrian restored Alexandria, which had been sacked by the Romans, from public funds.
d Hadrian, envious of Trajan's glory, recalled the army from those provinces created by him, namely, Assyria, Mesopotomia, and Armenia. *
18 e The Emperor Trajan ordered Quietus of Lysia to banish the rebellious Jews of Mesopotamia from the province: Quietus, drawing up an army against them, killed countless thousands of them, and for this he is appointed procurator of Judea by the emperor. 115 e Hadrian makes captives of the Jews, who were rebelling against Rome for a second time.
2 f The senate declares Trajan to be among the gods. 118
g Hadrian was most erudite in both languages, but he was inadequately restrained in his lust for boys. *
19 f After the gentiles there had been killed, the Jews overthrew Salamis, a city of Cyprus. h Hadrian freed the rest of the cities from tribute, having burned the records in public: he also discharged many free-men from these same tributes.
(1) I.e. within the pomerium.
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3 a Plutarch of Chaeronea, Sextus 1 , Agathabolus, and Oenomaus 2 are considered notable philosophers. 119 bishops that presided down to the destruction of Jerusalem, that was carried through by Hadrian, were from the circumcision.
b Xystus holds the 6th episcopate of the Roman church for 10 years. 226th Olympiad
9 a Hadrian was initiated into the Elusinian rites, and generously gave many gifts to the Athenians. 125
c Justus is appointed as 5th bishop of the church of Alexandria for 11 years.
b Quadratus the disciple of the apostles, and Aristides of Athens, our philospher, composed books on behalf of the Christian religion to give to Hadrian. And the legate Serenus Granius, a man most noble, sends letters to the emperor, saying that it is unjust to allow the blood of innocent men guilty of no crime (to be shed) at the clamour of the mob, and to be made guilty of a crime only because of a name and a sect. Having been so moved, Hadrian wrote to Minucius Fundanus, proconsul of Asia, that the Christians should not be condemned without evidence of a crime. An exemplar of these letters has remained until our own time.