17/25 It should be remarked, that it was under the reign of Trajan that the bishop Ignatius was carried from Antioch to Rome, to be exposed to the lions in the amphitheatre, the year of J.C.107, according to some; of 116, according to others .-- G.] [Footnote 71: Among the martyrs of Lyons, (Euseb.l.v.c. 1,) the slave Blandina was distinguished by more exquisite tortures. Of the five martyrs so much celebrated in the acts of Felicitas and Perpetua, two were of a servile, and two others of a very mean, condition.] [Footnote 72: Origen.advers.Celsum, l.iii.p.116.His words deserve to be transcribed. |