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h Valentinus the heretic is well known, and he remains down to Anicetus. 20 e Anicetus holds the 10th episcopate of the Roman church for 10 years, in whose time Polycarp coming to Rome corrected many from heretical error. 157
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2160 7 i Mesomedes of Crete, the poet-musician of lyre-ode songs, is well known. 144 22 159
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8 k Taurus Berytius, a distinguished philosopher of the Platonic sect, is considered important. f After Marcus, Cassianus received the 17th episcopate of Jerusalem, after him the 18th was Publius,
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whom Maximus, the 19th, succeeded, the 20th was Julianus, the 21st Gaianus, the 22nd Symmachus, the 23rd Caius, the 24th Julianus, and the 25th was Captio. a Lucius Caesar celebrated a triumph with his brother 1 over the Parthians.
6 b Agrippinus presided as the 9th bishop of Alexandria for 12 years. 166
a Antoninus Pius dies aged 77 at his villa at Lorium near the 12th milestone from the City. (*) d 4th pers-ecut-ion
c A persecution began in Asia and Polycarp and Pionius suffered martyrdom, of whom also there are written accounts of their martyrdom. 167
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14th of the Romans, Marcus Antonius, also called Verus, and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, reigned for 19 years and 1 month.
e Many people in Gaul died gloriously for the name of Christ; their contests have survived until the present day preserved in books.
1 b These men were the first to have run the empire jointly by law, since until this time, there had been individual Augusti. * 161
2 c It seems that fires were reported in the sky, from east to west, to Lucius Caesar who was sacrificing at Athens. 162 8 f The plague overtook numerous provinces, Rome having been troubled from there. 168
g The Romans fight against the Germans, Marcomannis, Quadis, Sarmatinis, and Dacians.
3 d Vologaesus, king of the Parthians, laid waste the Roman provinces near to him. 163
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2180 4 e The orator Fronto, who instructed Marcus Antoninus Verus in Latin studies, is considered notable. * 164 h Soter received the 11th episcopate of the Roman church for 8 years.
9 i Theophilus is ordained as the 6th bishop of Antioch, of whom many works of ingenuity are still extant. 169
f Seleucia in Assyria captured together with 300,000 men by the Romans. *