Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Church History of Eusebius/Book IV/Chapter 12

The Apology of Justin addressed to Antoninus.

&#8220; the Emperor Titus &#198;lius Adrian Antoninus Pius C&#230;sar Augustus, and to Verissimus his son, the philosopher, and to Lucius the philosopher, own son of C&#230;sar and adopted son of Pius, a lover of learning, and to the sacred senate and to the whole Roman people, I, Justin, son of Priscus and grandson of Bacchius, of Flavia Neapolis in Palestine, Syria, present this address and petition in behalf of those men of every nation who are unjustly hated and persecuted, I myself being one of them.&#8221; And the same emperor having learned also from other brethren in Asia of the injuries of all kinds which they were suffering from the inhabitants of the province, thought it proper to address the following ordinance to the Common Assembly of Asia.