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DATE OF THE MARTYRDOM.
68 o
correspond exactly with Prid. Id. Aug. [= August 12].
The year
is
fixed by the names of the consuls, Cossus Cornelius Lentulus and
L. Piso, to A. u. c. 753
or b. c. i'.
(ii)
The second is an Ephesian inscription published in Wood's
Ephcsux Inscr. vi. p. 36, dated in the consulship of Sextus Attius
Suburanus and M. Asinius Marcellus, i.e. a. d. 104 (see below, 11.
p. 497). The month and day are given tt/jo 77'
Ka AavSwi/ MapTtwj/...
fxrjvos 'Ai'Oea-rrjpLwvo's /3' aelSacTTrj^. As we have seen already,
it was a
principle of these calendars of Proconsular Asia, that each month
should begin on ix Kal. Thus viii Kal. would correspond to the
2nd day of the month, as here represented^ Moreover it will appear
presently from a comparison of calendars, that Anthesterion was the
same month as Xanthicus. So far therefore there is perfect harmony.
But the reckoning here does not follow the system of the Ephesian
and Asiatic calendars in the Hemcrologium, by which two first days are
assigned to all months containing 31 days (see p. 680), since in this
case viii Kal. Mart, would not be the 2nd, but the (nominal) ist of
Anthesterion. Indeed the inconvenience of reckoning two first days
must have been seriously felt, and would eventually lead to the substitution
of another nomenclature, at this point, without destroying the
general framework of the calendar.
(iii)
The third of these inscriptions is at Smyrna
itself. It is
given by Lebas and Waddington in. no. 25, p. 15. It contains the
name AureUa Felicissima, and is ascribed by Waddington to the age of
the Antonines. The dating
is
given TayVy^s t^s eVtypa(j!)^s £[K]cr