Now, the blessed Polycarp suffered martyr- dom on the second day of the month Xanthicus just begun," the seventh day before the Kalends of May, on the great Sabbath, at the eighth hour.'^ He was taken by Herod, Philip the Trallian being high priest,'-* Statius Quadratus being proconsul, but Jesus Christ being King for ever, to whom be glory, honour, majesty, and an everlasting throne, from generation to gener- ation. Amen.