Antoninus

For all things fade and quickly become the stuff of legend, and quickly utter oblivion buries them.

My city and country, as Antoninus, is Rome;

If someone puts to you how the name "Antoninus" is written, will you, with straining, force out each of the letters?

and if these truths should happily force their way to the thrones of princes, be it known to them, that they come attended with the secret wishes of all mankind, and tell the sovereign who deigns them a gracious reception, that his fame shall outshine the glory of conquerors, and that equitable posterity will exalt his peaceful trophies above those of a Titus, an Antoninus, or a Trajan.

Nor indeed was this law adopted by Cesar, by Trajan, or by Antoninus, whose name is still pronounced with respect by all nations;

Consult the pious Antoninus, and the good Trajan:

while it was lower down, about the times of Hadrian the king, that those who devised the heresies arose, and they continued down to the age of Antoninus the elder—such as Basilides, even though he inscribes Glaucias as his teacher, the interpreter of Peter (as they themselves boast).

whom Antoninus too knew very well, having been reared on Christian milk.

Since, then, under Antoninus Marcion first brought in this god, as we have proved — at once, you who are wise, the thing is plain.

For it is established that they were not even of any great antiquity — about the principate of Antoninus — and that at first they believed the teaching of the Catholic Church among the Romans, under the episcopate of the blessed Eleutherus, until, on account of their ever-restless curiosity, by which they were corrupting the brethren also, being once and again cast out — Marcion indeed with the tw …