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ADDENDA.
p. 9 sq. I am glad to find that the opinion here maintained respecting the
Neronian persecution has found support in a recent work by C. F. Arnold Die
Neronischc Verfolgtmg (Leipzig 1888). He has gone into the whole question and
agrees with me in thinking; (i) That the distinction between Jews and Christians
was recognized at the time of the persecution; and (2) That Poppsa had an influence
on Nero unfavourable to the Christians. His agreement is the more welcome,
because he does not appear to have seen what I had written. On the other hand the
opposite view is maintained in the excellent edition C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi
Epistulac pp. 51 sq, 240 sq, by E. G. Hardy. How much or how little influence
Poppiea may have had, is a matter of opinion and of small consequence. But in my
judgment the plain evidence of Tacitus as to the distinction of Jews and Christians
cannot be set aside in favour of nineteenth century criticism, even if the difficulties
had been twentyfold greater than they are. Otherwise, by the application of the
same rule generally, a great part of history would be reduced to ' a pack of lies '.
p. 54 1. 8. The letters between Pliny and Trajan relating to the Christians are the
subject of a paper by Arnold Studien ziir Geschichte dcr Plinianischen Christenverfolgicng'm.
Theologische Studien u. Skizzen I. p. 229 sq (Konigsberg 1887), where their
genuineness is vindicated and their bearing discussed.
p. 142. On this supposed commentary of Theophilus see also a long article by
W. Bornemann in Zcitschr.f. Kirchengesch. X. p. 169 sq (1S88).
p. 491 1. 20. This legion has since been made the subject of a careful monograph
De Legione Romanoriim X Gemina by E. Ritterling (Lips. 1885), where its origin
and history are fully given, so far as they can be traced. For the period during which
it was stationed in Pannonia see p. 50 sq. My statement of its locality needs some
modification. Its proper station in the age of M. Aurelius was Pannonia, where it
had already been located for a considerable time. Under Hadrian it took part in the
Judaic war, but this was only a temporary displacement. For the derivation of
'Fretensis' (see p. 492 1. 5) from the ' fretum Siculum,' near which it was at one
time stationed, see Ritterling, p. 7.
p. 493 sq. 'The Early Christian Monuments of Phrygia' are the subject
of five
interesting papers in the Expositor, Third Series, vili. p. 241 sq, p. 401 sq (1888), ix.
p. 141 sq, p. 253 sq, 392 sq (1889) by Prof. W. M. Ramsay. The two last treat more
especially of the inscription of Abercius. These papers throw considerable light on
the history of Montanism, which was apparently the prevailing type of Christianity in
this district of Phrygia in the age of M. Aurelius—Abercius being the leader and
representative of the Catholic minority. Ramsay maintains (ix. p. 271) that, though
this city was called ' Hieropolis ' by the semi-barbarous natives, its true Greek name
was ' Hierapolis ' (lepd ttoXls), like the city in the valley of the Lycus — the designation
being due to the sacred mineral springs (ix. p. 254 sq, 271). He points out that the