296 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. Socrates1statesthathe sufferedmartyrdom ;but his'authority, amid the silenceof allothers,isnot sufficientto guarantee the fact. Novatian composed many works. The followingare extant:— I. De Trinitate,formerlyattributedby some to Tertullian, by othersto Cyprian ; but now on allhands allowed tobe the work of Novatian, to whom Jerome expresslyassigns it.* It was written after the heresy of SabeUius, which appeared 256 a.d. H. De CibisJudaicis: at firstalsoattributedby some to Tertullianor Cyprian ; but now assignedto Novatian on the testimonyof Jerome. It was writtenduring the time of the Decian persecution,about 250 a.d. III. Novatian was the authorof the letteraddressedby the Roman clergy to Cyprian, containedin vol.i. of the Writings of Cyprian (Ante-Nicene Chr. Lib.), Ep. xxx. p. 85 ; as Cyprian himself states. See p. 135, c. 5, of the same volume. Some have alsoattributedto him Ep. xxix. withoutany authority. Jerome attributesto him writingson Circumcision,on the Sabbath,on the Passover,on the Priesthood,on Prayer, on Attalus,on the PresentCrisis,and Letters. The best editionsof Novatian are by Welchman, Oxford 1724 ; and by Jackson,London 1728. 1Hist.Eccllib.iv.c.28. * De virisIlluslribus,c.70.