Akiba, Rabbi, eminence of, and of his pupils, 337, 354-6 Fate of, 355 _& n._ 1 Supporter of Bar-cochab, 78, 336-7 on Massorah, 362 _n._ 1 Alcuin, 278 Aldus Manutius, supporting Pliny’s letter, 46 Alemanni, death of, 283 Alexander, son of S. Felicitas, tomb of, 259 Alexandria, Jewish revolts in, 330, 334-5, 346; literary support from, of Petrine tradition, 10, 13; plague of, 155 _n._ 2 Alexandrian-Jewish influences in Revelation of S. John, 72 Allard, --, on Acilius Glabrio, 269; on Archæology as rehabilitating legend, 289; on Jewish fecundity, first century, in Rome, 5 _n._ 1; on the Jews in the Augustan age, 4; on Nero’s persecution and popular disgust, 42 _n._ 2; on the Martyrdom of the Theban legion, 148 _n._ 1; on Pliny’s letter, 46; on S. Peter’s arrival in Rome, 19 _n._ 1; on Trajan’s personality, 48 Translation by, of the Epitaph of Pope Damasus, 215 _n._ 1 Almsgiving, in the early Church, 113, 119-22, 123, 130 _et seq._, 138, 139 America, Civil War of, cause of, 135 _n._ 1 Amoraim, the, 345, 358 _n._ 1, 359 Amphitheatre games, horrors of, 50; Martyrdoms in, 110, 172, 175-6; training of Christians for, 198 Ampliatus, Chapel or Crypt of, Domitilla Cemetery, 240 Tomb of, identification of, 241-2 Anacletus, Pope, cemetery of, 287; discoveries in, seventeenth century, 280 _et seq._ Memoriæ erected by, over tombs of SS. Peter and Paul, 233, 237, 281 _et seq._ Ananias and Sapphira, gift of, voluntary, 120 _n._ 1 Anchor, as Christian Emblem, 310 Angels, Haggadic references to, 378, 379 Animals, wild, in amphitheatre games, exposure to, of Christians, &c., 175-6, 178, 183, 185, 187, 191, 203, 204, 269 Anniversaries of Martyrs, first celebrated, 35 Antioch (_see also_ Ignatius), literary support from, of Petrine tradition, 9, 13 Antipas, martyr, 169 Antonines, the (_see also_ Antoninus Pius _and_ Marcus Aurelius), reigns of, 63; characteristics of, 84 _et seq._; table of succession of, 83 _Antonins, Les_, by De Champagny, on Hadrian’s character, 77 _n._ 1; on the number of Jews slain in the last wars, 338 & _n._ 2 Antoninus Pius, 186, 277; adopted by, and successor to, Hadrian, 83; family and character of, 83, 84, 85 Attitude of, to Christians, 158; ignorance of their faith, 77 Coinage of, 87, 90 Persecutions by, and reasons for, 33, 80, 81, 84, 91-3, 95, 137, 163 _n._ 2, 194, 207 Relations of, with Hadrian, 83, 85 _Apocalypse_ of S. John, 72; place of, in early Christian thought, 156-7; references in, to Persecution, 37, 157, 165, 167-70 _Apologies, The_, of Justin Martyr, 128, 184 on Assemblies, 108, 113-4 on Persecution, 185-6