[686]. Renan, Marc Aurèle, p. 49. Cf. Dill, Nero to Marcus, pp. 473-477.
[687]. Renan, L’Église Chrétienne, pp. 31-33, and Hadrian’s letter there quoted.
[688]. Of the defences mentioned in the text the Apology of Quadratus is the only one still lost to us. Justin Martyr’s two Apologies are among the best known of patristic works. That of Aristides was found by Dr Rendel Harris in a Syriac MS. in 1889. For the identification of this by Dean Armitage Robinson with the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, see Cambridge Texts and Studies, vol. 1. No. 1.
[689]. The account of Marcion’s life given by Salmon (s.v. Marcion) in the Dict. Christian Biog. is here mostly followed. Abundant references to the Fathers and other sources are there given.
[690]. Tertullian’s talk (adv. Marcion. Bk I. c. 1) about its barbarism and the natives living in waggons is mere rhetoric. He probably knew nothing about the place.
[691]. Stoicae studiosus. Tertullian, de Praescript. c. XXX.
[692]. Id. adv. Marc. Bk IV. c. 4; and de Praescript. c. XXX., where the money is said to have been 200 sestertia or nearly £1800.
[693]. Tertullian, adv. Marc. Bk I. c. 2. Cf. Pseudo Tertullianus, adv. omn. Haer. c. XVI.
[694]. Neander, Ch. Hist. II. p. 150; cf. Tertullian, de Praescript. c. XLI.
[695]. Ibid. op. cit. c. XXX. Salmon (Dict. Christian Biog. s.v. Marcion) wishes to transfer this story to Cerdo.