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286 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY may make use of this copy of my edict, that no one may molest you. And this liberty indeed, which you are now permitted to have, has been long since granted by me. Aurelius Cyrenius, therefore, who has the chief administration of affairs, will ob serve the copy here given by me." This, that it may be the bet ter understood, we have here presented to our readers, in a translation from the Latin tongue. There is also another ordi nance from him, which he addressed to other bishops, in which he grants permission to recover what are called the cemeteries. CHAPTER XIV. The bishops that flourished at this time. AT this time the episcopate in the Roman church was yet held by Xystus; but in the church of Antioch, after Fabius,by Demetrianus ; of Cesarea in Cappadocia by Firmilianus ; of the churches in Pontus, by Gregory, and his brother Athenodorus, both of them familiar friends of Origen. At Cesarea, however, of Palestine, after the death of Theoctistus, the episcopal office was conferred on Domnus, and he not surviving long, was suc ceeded by Theotecnus our contemporary. He was also of the school of Origen, but in Jerusalam, after the decease of Mazabanus, Hymenaeus followed as his successor in the episcopal seat, the same that has obtained much celebrity in our times for many years. CHAPTER XV. The martyrdom ofMarinus at Cesarea. ABOUT this time, as peace was every where restored to the churches, Marinus of Cesarea in Palestine, who was one of the army, distinguished for his military honours, and illustrious for his family and wealth, was beheaded for his confession of Christ,