[16] De Natura Rerum, c. 3.
[17] See the Notes of Valesius on Eusebius’ Martyrs of Palestine (Paris, 1659), pp. 173 f.
[18] Compare Luke xviii. 12.
[19] Simil. v. 1, στατίωνα ἔχω.
[20] De Jejuniis 14.
[21] Strom. vii. p. 877, Potter’s edit. On conjectures as to the origin of the word statio in this sense, see D.C.A.
[22] See p. 91.
[23] Christian Worship, E. tr. 230.
[24] Aegidius Bucherius (Gilles Boucher), a learned French Jesuit, whose De doctrina temporum appeared at Antwerp in 1634.
[25] Ruinart’s Acta Martyrum (1731), p. 541, and Lietzmann, Three oldest Martyrologies, 1904.