| Emperors. | | A.D. | | Trajan—(continued.) Third Persecution of the Christians. | | 117. | Adrian. Fourth Persecution of the Christians. | | 138. | Antoninus Pius. | | 161. | Marcus Aurelius. | | 180. | Commodus. | | 193. | Pertinax—Didius, and Niger—Defeated by | | 193. | Septimius Severus. | Authors. Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Suetonius, Juvenal, Arrian, Ælian, Ptolemy, (Geographer,) Appian, Epictetus, Pausanias, Galen, (Physician,) AthenÆus, Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Tatian, IrenÆus, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement Of Alexandria, Marcion, (Heretic.)
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