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 vowed, when the war was at its hottest, that I would be initiated, and I hope you will be my sponsor on the occasion."

Such was Marcus's plea for himself, at once so kindly and so manly.

? 163–164 A.D.

Emperor Antoninus Augustus to Euxenianus Publio, greeting:

Having had experience of your sagacity in your works themselves, and especially in those which you carried out by order of our authority in respect to Smyrna in alleviating the calamity that befell the Smyrniotes owing to the earthquake there, I have been pleased, as was natural, and praise you for your diligence in carrying out these duties. For I have been apprized of everything exactly as if I had been present. For everything has been clearly recounted to me by the report sent from you, and by him who presented it, and by Caecilius the procurator. But with respect to the present matter, it has come to the knowledge of our power that a certain Abercius, bishop of Hieropolis, is living in your jurisdiction, a 299