Section 5

Notes

1. 24

   Eusebius introduces the extract thus: He (Dionysius) addressed also an epistle to Hermammon and the brethren in Egypt; and after giving an account of the wickedness of Decius and his successors, he states many other circumstances, and also mentions the peace of Gallienus. And it is best to hear his own relation as follows.

2. 25

   This is rightly understood of Macrianus, by whose treachery Valerian came under the power of the Persians. Aurelius Victor, Syncellus, and others, testify that Valerian was overtaken by that calamity through the treachery of his generals.

3. 26

   Isa. xlii. 9.

4. 27

   προστάς. But Valesius would read προσστάς, adstans.

5. 28

   προσπελάσας is the reading of three of the codices and of Nicephorus; others give προπελάσας.