AM 5600
Year 100 of the divine Incarnation
The remaining years of Trajan, the eleventh ruler of the Romans
When the Jews throughout Libya, Cyrene, Egypt, Alexandria and
the Thebaid commenced hostilities against the Greek inhabitants
there, they were utterly destroyed.
1
Antioch suffered an earthquake when
Trajan was staying there.
2
Trajan ordered Lysius Quintus
3 to eliminate the insurgents in
Mesopotamia. For killing many tens of thousands of Jews, he was
thereby appointed governor of Judaea.
4
After killing the Greeks at Salamis in Cyprus, the Jews razed the
city.
5
The Senate passed a resolution making Trajan a god.
6
According to Eusebios, Trajan died of an illness in Selinous; but
according to others, he died of dysentery in Seleukeia of Isauria.
7
(7) The seventh Roman bishop was
Xystos 9 years
8
((5) The fifth) bishop of Alexandria was
Primus 12 years
9
(6) The sixth bishop of Jerusalem was
Benjamin 2 years
(7) The seventh bishop of Jerusalem was
Joannes 2 years
(8) The eighth bishop of Jerusalem was
Matthias 2 years
10
Footnotes
1 Cf. Eus. 2.196d; HE 4.2.1-4; Cass. Dio 68.32.
2 Cf. Eus. 2.196c (without the mention of Trajan); Cass. Dio 68.24.1.
3 Text: [Greek Text]; cf. Eus. HE 4.2.5: [Greek Text] ('Lysius Quietus').
4 Cf. Eus. 2.196e; HE 4.2.5.
5 Cf. Eus. 2.i96f.
6 Cf. Eus. 2.197c, Eutrop. 8.5.2.
7 Eus. 2.197a. For the tradition about Trajan's death in Seleukeia, see Eutrop. 8.5.2.
8 Cf. Eus. 2.198b; HE 4.5.5 (10 years).
9 Eus. 2.194e
10 Cf. Eus. 2.196a (without years). Cf. also [Greek Text] 77.22-4, which gives
3 years for Benjamin, 2 years each for Joannes and Matthias.
