4 d War waged against the Sauromatians. 120
e After an earthquake had happened, Nicomedia lay in ruins, and many things were overturned in the city of Nicaea: for the reconstruction of which, Hadrian generously gave funds from the public treasury.
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5 f Euphrates the Stoic philospher dies. 121
g Hadrian plants colonies in Libya, which had been devastated by the Jews. 11 127
6 h In response to the Athenians who had petitioned him for laws 3 , Hadrian composed a legal code drawn from the books of Draco, Solon, and the rest 4 . 122
7 i The river Cephisus flooded Eleusis, where Hadrian joined the two banks with a bridge and spent the winter in Athens. 123
12 c The emperor Hadrian is called Father of his Country and his wife Augusta. 128
k After Philip, Seneca is appointed as the 10th bishop of Jerusalem; after whom, Justius as the 11th, to whom succeeded Levi the 12th, after whom Ephres 13th, Joses 14th, Judas 15th. All these d Telesphorus received the seventh episcopate of the Roman church for 11 years.
2140 8 124 e Cornelius is appointed as the fourth bishop of Antioch.
(1) Sextus Empiricus.
(2) Oenomaus of Gadara.
(3) I.e. for a constitution.
(4) The other legislators.
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a Nicopolis and Caesarea were ruined in an earthquake. a Basilides the heresiarch lingers in Alexandria, from whom come the Gnostics.
13 b Antinous, a boy noted for his exceptional beauty, dies in Egypt. After Hadrian attentively carries out his funeral rites -- for the boy had been a favourite of his --, he declares him to be among the gods; a city was also named after him. 129 17 b Barcocheba, leader of a party of the Jews, because the Christians are not willing to help him against the Roman army, murders them with every sort of torture. 133
2150 18 c The Jewish War, which took place in Palestine, came to an end with the complete suppression of the Jews. From that time permission for them even to enter Jerusalem was revoked, first by the will of God, as the prophets had foretold, then by the prohibitions of the Romans. 134
14 c Eumenes presided as the sixth bishop of the church of Alexandria for 13 years. 130
15 d The temple of Rome and Venus built by Hadrian. * 131
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e Salvius Julianus composed the Perpetual Edict. *