2220 12 e Alexander is considered notable on account of his confession of the name of the Lord. 204
h In this year we find a jubilee observed by most, i.e. in the 12th year of Severus and 251st of the city of Antioch. 248th Olympiad
f Clement composes many and various works. 3 d Antoninus was surnamed 'Caracalla' because of a type of clothing, which he had distributed at Rome; and in turn caracallae were called antoninianae from his name. * 213
g Musanus the writer, of our philosophy, is well known.
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13 i After Clodius Albinus, who had made himself Caesar in Gaul, had been killed at Lyons, Severus carried the war over to the British provinces: where, so as to make the recovered provinces more secure from barbarian invasions, he drew an earthwork along a 132 mile stretch from sea to sea. (*) 205 5 e Antoninus built the bathhouses that bear his name at Rome. * 215
6 f Antoninus was so desperate with lust that he made his stepmother Julia his wife. * 216
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7 g Antoninus is killed between Edessa and Carrae in the 43rd year of his life. (*) 217
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16 k Tertullian the African, son of the proconsular centurion, is celebrated among all the churches for his eloquence. 1 * 208 19th of the Romans, Macrinus reigned for 1 year.
1 h Macrinus, while holding the Praetorian Prefecture, made emperor. * 218
l Origen becomes learned by studies at Alexandria.
(1) A scholion in 'O' reads: "Tertullian was under the rule of Severus the African, 180 years after the Lord." It is not in the same hand as the main text.
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a Philetus is appointed 10th bishop of Antioch. 21st of the Romans, Alexander, son of Mamaea, reigned for 13 years.
b The amphitheatre at Rome burned down during the Vulcanalian Games. 1 a Alexander most gloriously defeated Xerxes, king of the Persians, and he was such a strict reformer of military discipline that he dismissed certain entire legions that were disorderly. * 223
c Abgar 1 , a holy man, reigned at Edessa, as Africanus maintains.
d Macrinus is slain in Khirbet-El-Arakah. 2240 2 224
20th of the Romans, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus reigned for 4 years. 251st Olympiad
3 b Urbanus is ordained as 16th bishop of the Roman church, for nine years. 225
1 e Marcus Aurelius, thought to be the son of Antoninus Caracalla, and priest of the temple of Heliogabalus, during his reign lived shamelessly to such a degree, that he overlooked no kind of obscenity. * 219
4 c Ulpian the jurist and counselor of Alexander, is considered most notable. * 226