Christian females were exposed to his lusts, as well as to the brutal violence of his colleague Maximian, but they were not selected as Christians .-- M.] [Footnote 169: The epitaph of Marcellus is to be found in Gruter, Inscrip.

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3, and it contains all that we know of his history.
Marcellinus and Marcellus, whose names follow in the list of popes, are supposed by many critics to be different persons; but the learned Abbe de Longuerue was convinced that they were one and the same.

Veridicus rector lapsis quia crimina flere Praedixit miseris, fuit omnibus hostis amarus.

Hinc furor, hinc odium; sequitur discordia, lites, Seditio, caedes; solvuntur foedera pacis.