1. Among these Hegesippus was well known. We have already quoted his words a number of times, relating events which happened in the time of the apostles according to his account.
2. He records in five books the true tradition of apostolic doctrine in a most simple style, and he indicates the time in which he flourished when he writes as follows concerning those that first set up idols: "To whom they erected cenotaphs and temples, as is done to the present day. Among whom is also Antinoüs, a slave of the Emperor Adrian, in whose honor are celebrated also the Antinoian games, which were instituted in our day. For he [i.e. Adrian] also founded a city named after Antinoüs, and appointed prophets."
3. At the same time also Justin, a genuine lover of the true philosophy, was still continuing to busy himself with Greek literature.
4. The same writer, speaking of the Jewish war which took place at that time, adds the following: "For in the late Jewish war Barcocheba, the leader of the Jewish rebellion, commanded that Christians alone should be visited with terrible punishments unless they would deny and blaspheme Jesus Christ."
5. And in the same work he shows that his conversion from Greek philosophy to Christianity was not without reason, but that it was the result of deliberation on his part. His words are as follows:
6. The same writer, moreover, relates that Adrian having received from Serennius Granianus, a most distinguished governor, a letter
7. And he gives a copy of the epistle, preserving the original Latin in which it was written, and prefacing it with the following words:
8. After these words the author referred to gives the rescript in Latin, which we have translated into Greek as accurately as we could.