[21] This _Statius Quadratus_ was that very proconsul, in whose presence, and by whose authority, _St. Polycarp_, bishop of _Smyrna_, was burnt alive in the amphitheatre of that city. His name is falsely written Τάτιος Κ. in the _Alexandrian Chronicle_, and Στράτιος in the _Epistle of the church of Smyrna_. But this stone confirms that correction, which has been made by bishop _Pearson_ and _Valesius_. It likewise favours that learned argument maintained by bishop _Pearson_, Dissert. ii. cap. xvi, xvii. pag. 291, by which he places this proconsulship and the martyrdom of _St. Polycarp_ in the tenth year of _Antoninus Pius_, _A. C._ 147. For in the fourth year of _M. Antoninus_, to which the _Alexandrian Chronicle_ refers it; as also in the year 167, to which it is referred by _Eusebius_ and _Valesius_; there were two _Caesars_, concerning whom _Eutropius_ says: _Tunc primum Rom. respublica duobus aequo jure imperium administrantibus paruit, cum usque ad eum singulos semper habuisset Augustos._ Lib. viii. cap. 5. But this inscription mentions only one _Caesar_, in the singular number. And as for that _Quadratus_, whom _Bucherius_ and _Usserius_ will have proconsul in _Asia_ in the year 169, his name was not _Statius_, but _T. Numidius_. See also mention of _Quadratus_ in _Aristidis Orat. Genethliac. in Apellam_; and in his _Sermon. Sacror._ iv. [22] Καὶ γάρ τ’ ἠΰκομος Νιόβη ἐμνήσατο σίτου, etc. Νῦν δέ που ἐν πέτρῃσιν, ἐν οὔρεσιν οἰοπόλοισιν Ἐν Σιπύλῳ, ὅθι φασὶ θεάων ἔμμεναι εὐνὰς Νυμφάων, αἵτ’ ἀμφ’ Ἀχελώϊον ἐῤῥώσαντο, Ἔνθα, λίθος πὲρ ἐοῦσα θεῶν ἐκ κήδεα πέσσει. _Hom. Iliad._ ω. 602. On which passage the _Scholia_, usually ascribed to _Didymus_, have the following remark: Θρηνοῦσαν οὖν τὴν Νιόβην ἀφάτως τὸ τοιοῦτον δυστύχημα, Ζεὺς ἐλεήσας εἰς λίθον μετέβαλεν, ὃς καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἐν Σιπύλῳ τῆς Φρυγίας ὁρᾶται παρὰ πάντων πηγὰς δακρύων προϊέμενος. And _Pausanias_, _Attic._ _Lib._ i. _cap._ 21. says: Ταύτην τὴν Νιόβην καὶ αὐτὸς εἶδον ἀνελθὼν ἐς τὸν Σίπυλον τὸ ὄρος. Ἥδε πλησίον μὲν πέτρα καὶ κρημνός ἐστιν, οὐδὲν παρόντι σχῆμα παρεχόμενος γυναικὸς, οὔτε ἄλλως, οὔτε πενθούσης· εἰ δέ γε ποῤῥωτέρω γένοιο, δεδακρυμένην δόξεις ὁρᾷν καὶ κατηφῆ γυναῖκα. [23] Plin. Lib. v. cap. 29. _A Smyrna Hermus amnis campos facit, et nomini suo adoptat; oritur juxta Dorglaeum Phrygiae civitatem, multosque colligit fluvios, inter quos Hyllum et Cryon._ [24] See mention of these by _Herodian_, under the name of πολυάνδρια, in his description of that massacre of the Alexandrians by Caracalla, _Lib._ iv. _cap._ 17. _edit. Oxon._ [25] The sense of the word _barrows_ or _burroughs_ is by _Verstegan_ deduced from _burying_, and therefore well answers the Greek πολυάνδρια. Chap. vii. p. 211. [26] Thus Lucan, _Stetit aggere fultus Cespitis_. Lib. v. ℣. 316. And _Tacitus_, Annal. L. i. cap. 17. _Congerunt cespites._ See _Lipsii not._