[12]. Annals lib. xv, ch. 44.

[13]. Decline and Fall I, ch. xvi. See also Guizot's note on same page.

[14]. This is according to the testimony of Eusebius, quoting Hagesippus and Tertullian. (Eusebius Book III, ch. xx). But other authorities claim that Domitian's edicts against the Christians were not revoked until after his death.

[15]. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. I. Second Cent. ch. ii.

[16]. Decline and Fall, vol. I, ch. xvi.

[17]. Eusebius Eccle. Hist. Bk. v, ch. i and ii.

[18]. Decline and Fall, vol. I, ch. xvi.

[19]. Mosheim's Eccl. His. vol. I, cent. iii, ch. ii.

[20]. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. vol. I, cent. iv, ch. i.

[21]. Quoted by Murdock in Mosheim.—See note—Mosheim Eccl. Hist. vol. I, p. 210.