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apostolicfathers0201clem - Carmel Apologetics

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HADRIAN, PIUS, AND MARCUS. 53 1<br />

admit this interpretation. Thus Celsus quotes as worthy of acceptance the Homeric<br />

maxim eh ^aaiXeijs (^trrw),<br />

and he continues,<br />

cii' tovto Mffyjs rh 86y/xa, eUorus cl/jlvveTrai<br />

ae 6 ^a^LXevs. Could any language more unfortunate be conceived,<br />

if at<br />

this veiy time there were two Augusti Why should he, when he was expressly<br />

enforcing the duty of loyalty to two emperors, quote as authoritative a passage which<br />

declares emphatically that there ought only to be one These expressions therefore<br />

seem to me to be almost absolutely decisive that there were not at this time, and<br />

(I would add likewise) there had not been very recently, two joint sovereigns. In<br />

other words they seem to indicate a date before a.d. i6i, when M. Aurelius and<br />

L. Verus were associated in the imperial power. I should be disposed therefore<br />

provisionally to assign the 'True Word' to the reign of Antoninus Pius. The expression<br />

oi vdv ^a

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