[a.d. 30-107.] The seductive myth which represents this Father as the Httle child whom the Lord placed in the midst of his apostles (St. Matt, xviii. 2) indicates at least the period when he may be supposed to have been born. That he and Polycarp were fellow-disciples under St. John, is a tradition by no means inconsistent with anything in the Epistles of either. His subse- quent history is sufficiently indicated in the Epistles which follow.