[47:1] Antoninus Pius became emperor in A.D. 138.—Lightfoot, i. p. 703. Hadrian died on the 10th of July of that year.—Ibid.
[47:2] Book iv. 10.
[47:3] Book iv. 11. Dr. Lightfoot states that Eusebius had lists of Roman and Alexandrian bishops, "giving the lengths of their respective terms of office," vol. ii. sec. i. p. 451. It is said that Hippolytus was the first who ever made a chronological list of the Bishops of Rome.—Döllinger's Hippolytus and Callistus, p. 337.
[50:1] § 8, 9.
[50:2] Vol. i. p. 703.
[50:3] Vol. i. p. 650.
[51:1] Vol. i. p. 273.
[53:1] Contra Haer. lib. v. c. 28. §4.
[54:1] Dr. Lightfoot seems to have been in a condition of strange forgetfulness when he asks, "Why does not Irenaeus quote Polycarp's Epistle?"—vol. i. p. 328. The simple answer is that he mentions the Epistle, and quotes Polycarp by name as a witness against the heretics. Contra Haer. book iii. c. 3. § 4.
[55:1] Eusebius, v. c. i. The writer here mentions a number of individuals by name, who were at this time "led into the amphitheatre to the wild beasts."