D. Aurelius proceeded against him, deploring
the necessity of taking up arms against a trusted officer. Cassius was
slain by his own officers while M. Aurelius was still in Illyria.
[214] ~Commodus~. Emperor of Rome, 180-192 A.D. He was dissolute and
tyrannical.
[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 Ecclesiastique_, 20 vols., 1691.
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[219] _Med._, I, 12.
[220] _Ibid._, I, 14.
[221] _Ibid._, IV, 24.
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[222] _Ibid._, III, 4.
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[223] _Ibid._, V, 6.
[224] _Ibid._, IX, 42.
[225] ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca~ (c. 3 B.C.-A.D. 65), statesman and
philosopher. His twelve so-called _Dialogues_ are Stoic sermons of a
practical and earnest character.
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[226] _Med.
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