[Sidenote: A.D. 139 (a.u. 892)] We do not find preserved, either, the first part of the account of Marcus Verus, who ruled after Antoninus and all that the latter himself did in the case of Lucius, son of Commodus, whom Marcus made his son-in-law, and all that Lucius accomplished when sent by his father to the war against Vologaesus. I shall speak briefly about these matters, gathering my material from other books, and then I shall go back to the continuation of Dio's narrative. II. From Xiphilinus: [Sidenote: LXX, 3] [Sidenote: A.D. 153 (a.u. 906)] Antoninus is admitted by all to have been noble and good, not oppressive to the Christians nor severe to any of his other subjects; instead, he showed the Christians great respect and added to the honor in which Hadrian had been wont to hold them. For Eusebius, son of Pamphilus, cites in his Church History [Footnote: IV, 9.] some letters of Hadrian in which the latter is shown to threaten terrible vengeance upon those who harm in any way or accuse the Christians, and to swear by Hercules that they shall receive punishment. Antoninus is said also to have been of an enquiring turn of mind and not to have held aloof from careful investigation of even small and commonplace matters; for this those disposed to scoff called him Cumminsplitter. [Sidenote: A.D. 161 (a.u. 914)] Quadratus states that he died at an advanced age, and that the happiest death befell him, like unto gentlest slumber. [Sidenote:(A.D. 177?)] [Sidenote:--4--] In the days of Antoninus also a most frightful earthquake is said to have occurred in the region of Bithynia and the Hellespont. Various cities were severely damaged or fell without a building left standing, and in particular Cyzicus; and the temple there that was the greatest and most beautiful of all temples was thrown down. Its columns were four cubits in thickness and fifty cubits in height, each of a single block of stone; and each of the other features of the edifice was more to be wondered at than to be praised. Somewhere in the interior of the country the peak of a mountain rose upwards and surges of the sea are said to have gushed out, while the spray from pure, transparent sea-water was driven to a great distance over the land. [Footnote: Compare also Zonaras V, 12 (p. 80, II. 3-11 Dind).. It is not certain whether this earthquake properly belongs to the reign of Pius or that of Marcus. If to the former, it must have occurred between 150 and 155 B.C. See _Hermes_ XXVI, pages 444-446 (Boissevain: _Zonaras Quelle fuer die Romische Kaisergeschichte von Nerva bis Severus Alexander_) and XXXII, pages 497-508 (B. Keil: _Kyzikenisches_); also _Byzantinische Zeitschrift_ I, page 30 ff. (article by de Boor).]--So much is the account of Antoninus at present extant. He reigned twenty-four years. III. Of Dio [or rather of Eutropius, or John of Antioch]. Taken from the Writings of Suidas.