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676 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.<br />

7 2, 98) this to be the Severus of Aristides, who might well by<br />

virtue of<br />

his seniority have obtained the proconsulate of Asia the year before.<br />

This combination is<br />

specious in itself and might have deserved consideration,<br />

if it had not formed part of a general chronological scheme<br />

which is burdened with difficulties. In favour of Waddington's identification<br />

of the proconsul Severus as against Wieseler's,<br />

it should be<br />

urged that the description of the former exactly accords with the account<br />

of Aristides (i. p. 505), who describes him as 'one of the notables<br />

of Upper Phrygia' {fJ.dXa tmv yvwpt/Awv Se/^r/pos Tojv aVo TT7S dvwOev<br />

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