It was the duty of the Irenarch to apprehend all seditious troublers of the public peace. Footnote 406: Some think that those magistrates bore this name that were elected by lot. Footnote 407: That is, on Friday. Footnote 408: Comp. Matt. xxvi. 55. Footnote 409: Or, “in.” Footnote 410: Some read, “the Lord.” Footnote 411: Comp. Matt. vi. 10; Acts xxi. 14. Footnote 412: Or, “diligence.” Footnote 413: Jacobson reads, “and [marvelling] that they had used so great diligence to capture,” etc. Footnote 414: Or, “be silent.” Footnote 415: Jacobson deems these words an interpolation. Footnote 416: Or, “Cæsar is Lord,” all the MSS. having κύριος instead of κύριε, as usually printed. Footnote 417: Or, “terrible.” Footnote 418: Or, “cast him down” simply, the following words being, as above, an interpolation. Footnote 419: Or, “sprained his ankle.” Footnote 420: Or, “not turning back.” Footnote 421: Referring the words to the heathen, and not to the Christians, as was desired. Footnote 422: Or, “an account of Christianity.” Footnote 423: Comp. Rom. xiii. 1-7; Tit. iii. 1. Footnote 424: Or, “of my making any defence to them.” Footnote 425: Literally, “repentance from things better to things worse is a change impossible to us.” Footnote 426: That is, to leave this world for a better. Footnote 427: Some read, “ungodliness,” but the above seems preferable. Footnote 428: The Asiarchs were those who superintended all arrangements connected with the games in the several provinces. Footnote 429: Literally, “the baiting of dogs.” Footnote 430: Literally, “good behaviour.” Footnote 431: Some think this implies that Polycarp’s skin was believed to possess a miraculous efficacy. Footnote 432: Comp. Matt. xx. 22, xxvi. 39; Mark x. 38. Footnote 433: Literally, “in a fat,” etc. Footnote 434: Literally, “the not false and true God.” Footnote 435: Eusebius (_Hist. Eccl._ iv. 15) has preserved a great portion of this Martyrium, but in a text considerably differing from that we have followed. Here, instead of “and,” he has “in the Holy Ghost.” Footnote 436: Literally, “a great flame shining forth.” Footnote 437: Literally, “breathing.” Footnote 438: Eusebius omits all mention of the _dove_, and many have thought the text to be here corrupt. It has been proposed to read ἐπ’ ἀριστερᾷ, “on the left hand side,” instead of περιστερὰ, “a dove.” Footnote 439: Literally, “greatness.” Footnote 440: The Greek, literally translated, is, “and to have fellowship with his holy flesh.” Footnote 441: This clause is omitted by Eusebius: it was probably interpolated by some transcriber, who had in his mind 1 Pet. iii. 18. Footnote 442: Literally, “unsurpassable.” Footnote 443: Literally, “fellow-partakers.” Footnote 444: Or, “him.” Footnote 445: Or, “more tried.” Footnote 446: