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Archbishop Ussher has been at pains to show that the month and day there mentioned precisely correspond to and verify this reckoning. It is unnecessary here to repeat his calculations; but it is right to notice another item spoken of in the Smyrnaean Epistle, supplying an additional confirmatory proof which the Bishop of Durham cannot well ignore. In January A.D. 169, L. Verus died.
And what wonder, if the fairest of Ionian cities has given birth to the fairest of women? I thought he must come from Smyrna himself, he was so proud of her. Poly. There you acted your stony part to perfection. As you could neither follow her, nor make inquiries of the Smyrnaean, it only remains for you to describe her as best you can, on the chance of my recognizing her. Ly.
The postscript of the Smyrnaean letter is, as we have seen, justly suspected as no part of the original document. Dr. And yet his whole chronology rests on the supposition that the name of the proconsul is correctly given in this probably apocryphal addition to the Smyrnaean letter.
The reader may be at a loss to understand how it happens that this eccentric character has been brought forward as a witness to the date of the martyrdom of Polycarp. He has been introduced under the following circumstances. In the postscript to the Smyrnaean letter an appendage of very doubtful authority we are told that the martyrdom occurred when Statius Quadratus was proconsul of Asia.
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