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16th of the Romans, Aelius Pertinax reigned for 6 months.
3 b Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem and Theophilus of Caesarea, with Polycrates and Bacchylus, bishops of the Asian Province are considered notable. 195
1 b Though he was more than seventy years old, Pertinax, while he was holding the prefecture of the City, was ordered by a decree of the senate to govern the empire. 193
c Victor receives the 13th episcopate of Rome for 10 years, whose modest volumes On Religion are extant. 4 c A question having arisen among the bishops of Asia whether, according to the Law of Moses, Easter ought to be observed on the 14th of the month, Victor, bishop of the City of Rome and Narcissus of Jerusalem, together with Polycrates and many pastors of the churches, issued a letter stating what seemed likely to them, of which a record survives down to our time. 196
d Pertinax refused the pleas of the Senate to call his wife 'Augusta' and his son Caesar, which suffices to show that he himself reigned unwillingly.
e Pertinax is slain in the palace, by the wickedness of Julian the jurist: whom Severus afterwards killed at the Milvian Bridge. (*)
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5 d The Jewish and Samaritan war happened. 197
17th of the Romans, Severus reigned for 18 years.
6 e Severus defeated the Parthians and the Adiabeni, and slaughtered the Inner Arabs to such an extent that he could make their land into a Roman province. On that account, he was given the surnames Parthicus, Arabicus, and Adiabenicus. (*) 198
2210 2 f Severus was from the town of Leptis in the Province of Tripolitana, and remains to this day the only Emperor the Romans had from Africa. In honor of Pertinax, whom Julianus had slain, he commanded that he be surnamed Pertinax. * 194
g Severus reigned for 6 months of the preceding year. 7 199
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a While Severus was reigning, Severian Baths were built at Antioch and Rome, and the Septizonium constructed. * 247th Olympiad
17 a Severus dies at York in Britain. 209
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245th Olympiad 18th of the Romans, Antoninus, surnamed Caracalla, son of Severus, reigned for 7 years.
9 b Zephyrinus received the 14th episcopate of the Roman Church, for 17 years. 201
1 b Asclepiades is appointed as the 9th Bishop of Antioch. 211
10 d 5th persecution c While persecution of the Christians was being carried on, Leonides the father of Origen passed on in the glorious death of martyrdom. 202
2 c While Narcissus is still living, Alexander is ordained 35th Bishop of Jerusalem and rules the Church with him on an equal basis. 212
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