adelphians, the Smyrnæans, and Polycarp. He then came on to Neapolis, and passed through
the whole of Macedonia. Finding a ship at Dyrrachium in Epirus about to sail into Italy, he
embarked, and crossing the Adriatic, was brought to Rome, where he perished on the 20th
of December 107, or, as some think, who deny a twofold expedition of Trajan against the
Parthians, on the same day of the year a.d. 116.
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