[215] ~Attalus~, a Roman citizen, was put to death with other Christians in A.D. 177.
[216] ~Polycarp~, Bishop of Smyrna, and one of the Apostolic Fathers, suffered martyrdom in 155 A.D.
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[217] ~Tacitus~, Ab Excessu Augusti, XV, 44.
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[218] ~Claude Fleury~ (1640-1723), French ecclesiastical historian, author of the Histoire Ecclésiastique, 20 vols., 1691.
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[219] Med., I, 12.
[220] Ibid., I, 14.
[221] Ibid., IV, 24.