See Dissertation Preliminaire a l'Art de verifier les Dates.

* Note: On the aera of martyrs see the very curious dissertations of Mons Letronne on some recently discovered inscriptions in Egypt and Nubis, p.

102, &c .-- M.] [Footnote 132: The expression of Lactantius, (de M.P.c.

15,) "sacrificio pollui coegit," implies their antecedent conversion to the faith, but does not seem to justify the assertion of Mosheim, (p.

912,) that they had been privately baptized.] [Footnote 133: M.de Tillemont (Memoires Ecclesiastiques, tom.v.