236th Olympiad k The emperor Lucius, while sitting with his brother in a carriage, died of apoplexy in the ninth, or, as some think, in the eleventh year of his reign between Concordia and Altinus. (*)
5 g At Pisa, the philosopher Peregrinus, after a funeral pyre that he had built from timber had been lit, threw himself on it. 165
(1) His 'brother' is Marcus Aurelius.
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10 a Melito, bishop of Sardis in Asia, handed over an Apology for the Christians to the emperor Antoninus. 2190 14 of the Divinity once was sent for Pertinax and his army while he was fighting with the emperor in the land of the Quadi and was oppressed with thirst; while on the other hand, thunderbolts fell upon the Germans and Sarmatians, and slew most of them. There is extant a letter of Marcus Aurelius, a most serious emperor, in which it is witnessed that a drought of Germany was finished, perhaps by the prayers of the Christian soldiers, rain having been obtained. 174
b Apollinaris, bishop of Asian Hierapolis, is considered notable.
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11 c Dionysius, bishop of Corinth, is considered important, and Pinytus of Crete, a most eloquent man.
d The false prophecy, which is called the Cataphrygian, had its beginning, from its founder Montanus, with Priscilla and Maximilla the insane seers. 16 176
a Atticus, a philosopher of the Platonist school, is well known.
12 e Tatian the heretic is well known, from whom come the Encratites. 239th Olympiad
17 b Eleutherius receives the 12th episcopate of the Roman Church for 15 years. 177
f Bardaisan, the leader of another heresy, becomes well-known.
c Maximinus is appointed as 7th bishop of Antioch.
g Oppianus Cilex the poet, who composed the Halieutica with wonderful splendour, is recognised.
d Antoninus makes his son Commodus his colleague in power.
h So great was the pestilence throughout the entire world, that that the Roman army was slaughtered almost to extinction. *
e Antoninus with his son celebrated a triumph over the enemy, whom he had devastated by having a permanent camp at Carnuntum for three years. (*)
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13 i The emperor Antoninus sometimes personally participated in many of the wars that arose against him, sometimes he appointed very noble commanders. Among them, a rainstorm
18 f The emperors granted much to many, and when they had forgiven the provinces the money that was owed to the exchequer, they instructed that the titles of the debtors should 178
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be burned in the middle of the forum of Rome, and, lest anything of goodness should be lacking, they tempered some rather severe laws with new regulations. of Jerusalem. After him, the 27th is Antoninus, the 28th Valens, the 29th Dulchianus, the 30th Narcissus, the 31st Dius, the 32nd Germanio, the 33rd Gordius, and the 34th is Narcissus again. So many bishops having been appointed at Jerusalem, we could not discern the dates of each. Because of this these dates were not recorded much from this point until the present day.