[Footnote74:Asaspecimenoftheselegends，wemaybesatisfiedwith10，000Christiansoldierscrucifiedinoneday，eitherbyTrajanorHadrianonMountArarat。SeeBaroniusadMartyrologiumRomanum；Tillemont，Mem。Ecclesiast。tom。ii。partii。p。438；

　　andGeddes\'sMiscellanies，vol。ii。p。203。TheabbreviationofMil。，whichmaysignifyeithersoldiersorthousands，issaidtohaveoccasionedsomeextraordinarymistakes。]

　　[Footnote75:Dionysiusap。Eusebl。vi。c。41Oneoftheseventeenwaslikewiseaccusedofrobbery。

　　Note:Gibbonoughttohavesaid，wasfalselyaccusedofrobbery，forsoitisintheGreektext。ThisChristian，namedNemesion，falselyaccusedofrobberybeforethecenturion，wasacquittedofacrimealtogetherforeigntohischaracter，buthewasledbeforethegovernorasguiltyofbeingaChristian，andthegovernorinflicteduponhimadoubletorture。Euseb。loc。

　　cit。Itmustbeadded，thatSaintDionysiusonlymakesparticularmentionoftheprincipalmartyrs，[thisisverydoubtful。—M。]andthathesays，ingeneral，thatthefuryofthePagansagainsttheChristiansgavetoAlexandriatheappearanceofacitytakenbystorm。[Thisreferstoplunderandillusage，nottoactualslaughter。—M。]FinallyitshouldbeobservedthatOrigenwrotebeforethepersecutionoftheemperorDecius。—G。]

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