203.

The abbreviation of Mil., which may signify either soldiers or thousands, is said to have occasioned some extraordinary mistakes.] [Footnote 75: Dionysius ap.

Euseb l.vi.c.41 One of the seventeen was likewise accused of robbery.

* Note: Gibbon ought to have said, was falsely accused of robbery, for so it is in the Greek text.

This Christian, named Nemesion, falsely accused of robbery before the centurion, was acquitted of a crime altogether foreign to his character, but he was led before the governor as guilty of being a Christian, and the governor inflicted upon him a double torture.