{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1890,"date_label":"1890 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1890,"edition_year":1890,"edition_year_basis":"Original NPNF Series II Volume I title and copyright, 1890; transcription physical printing year unknown","id":"ws-library-full-note:d2af5cabb59696bea7da:cite_note-12","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter XV.—Under Verus,Polycarp with Others suffered Martyrdom at Smyrna.; original source section: Chapter 15, editorial note cite_note-12","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["15. In addition to these things the narrative concerning him contains the following account: “But when at length he had brought his prayer to an end, after remembering all that had ever come into contact with him, small and great, famous and obscure, and the whole catholic Church throughout the world, the hour of departure being come, they put him upon an ass and brought him to the city, it being a great Sabbath. And he was met by Herod, the captain of police, and by his father Nicetes, who took him into their carriage, and sitting beside him endeavored to persuade him, saying, ‘For what harm is there in saying, Lord Cæsar, and sacrificing and saving your life?’ He at first did not answer; but when they persisted, he said, ‘I am not going to do what you advise me.’"],"source_library_url":"/library/d2af5cabb59696bea7da/#ws-library-full-note:d2af5cabb59696bea7da:cite_note-12","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_I/Church_History_of_Eusebius/Book_IV/Chapter_15#cite_note-12","translator":"Rev. Arthur Cushman McGiffert (Ph.D.)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0057/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"b9f615c66eafa7d4ea57647d1cf185165c893b00347fa7d29163806b197e9792","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:d2af5cabb59696bea7da:cite_note-12"},"verified":true,"work":"Book IV","work_id":"ws-npnf2-1-eusebius-history-c9c07ef9e963aba4de6d"}