A[nno] cxio ¶Plinius secundus Nouocomensis orator & hystoricus insignis habetur, cuius plurima
ingenia extant. ¶Pantheon Romę quod Domicianus fecerat fulmine concrematum est cui inde nomen
datum est, quod omnium deorum sit ipsum habitaculum. ¶Illustris martyr Hermes cum sorore sua The
odora martyrium passus est.
A[nno] cxiio ¶Iudei per diuersas terrarum partes sedicionem mouentes cede sternuntur.

A[nno]1 cxiiio

A[nno] cxiiiio Anacletus papa transi\ui/t ad Dominum, cui successit Euaristus. Sedit autem Anacletus annis ix
mensibus x diebus vii. ¶Traianus Romani imperii quod post Augustum defensum magis fuerat quam
nobiliter ampliatum fines longe lateque diffudit.
A[nno] cxvo Traiano ad inferos traiecto, postea tamen beati Gregorii prece reiecto successit Helius Adrianus conso
brinę Triani filius, qui annis xxio regnauit, sub quo passus est ius Sixtus papa. Hic precepit Christianos sine
obiectu non dampnari. Idem Iudeos secondo rebelles ultima cede perdomuit, & eos omnino de terra Ierosoli
morum exturbauit ipsamque Ierosolim ex nomine suo Helyam uocari constituit.
A[nno] cxvio
¶Beatus Quadratus episcopus discipulus apostolorum persecutione Adriani ęcclesiam
A[nno] cxviio grandi2 terrore dispersam fide & industria sua congregans etiam librum pro Christianę relligi
onis defensione edidit, plenum fidei & apostolica doctrina dignum.
A[nno] cxviiio Adrianus imperator in utraque lingua eruditissimus bibliothecam Athenis miri operis
extruxit.
A[nno] cxixo

A[nno] cxxo
¶Sancta Sabrina uirgo & illustrissima martyrium passa est.
¶Santa Serapia uirgo martyrium passa est. ¶Aristides beatus3 uir
Atheniensis fide & sapiencia claruit. Qui Adriano imperatori de Christiana relligione libros ob
tulit, & quod Christus Iesus solus esset Deus presente ipso imperatore luculentissime4 perorauit;
A[nno] cxxio

A[nno] cxxiio

A[nno] cxxiiio Euaristus papa migrauit ad Dominum, cui successit beatus Alexander.

A[nno] cxxiiiio ¶Sanctus Eustachius cum uxore & duobus filiis martyrium pro Christo passus est

A[nno] cxxvo

A[nno] cxxvio

A[nno] cxxviio Obiit5 beatus Alexander papa & cetera ut supra, cui successit beatus Syxtus.

 

Notes

1 DB: From now on the A for Anno changes to a simpler form that was also used for AD 65 and 74.
2 DB: The beginning of the annal for AD 117 is written in the line above (Beatus Quadratus…), continuing onto the next line (i.e., ęcclesiam grandi…).
3 DB: The scribe has used symbols (/.) to indicate an alternative word order: Beatus Aristides.
4 DB: Possibly the t is written over an erasure.
5 DB: Reading this as a monogram for Obiit.
In the 111th year ¶Pliny the younger, of Como, orator and historian, is held in high regard; very many of his clever works survive. ¶The Pantheon of Rome which Domitian built is burnt by a thunderbolt: it was given its name from being the dwelling-place of the gods. ¶The illustrious martyr Hermes with his sister Theodora suffered martyrdom.
In the 112th year ¶The Jews, rising in rebellion, were scattered, banished, throughout diverse regions of the world.

In the 113th year

In the 114th year Pope Anacletus passed over to the Lord; Evaristus succeeded him. For Anacletus ruled [as pope] for 9 years, 10 months and 7 days. ¶Trajan spread the bounds of the Roman Empire far and wide: after Augustus it had been defended more than it had been nobly extended.
In the 115th year, after Trajan had been thrown to hell—although later thrown back by the blessed Gregory’s intercession1—Aelius Hadrian succeeded, son of Trajan’s cousin, who reigned for 21 years, under whom Pope Sixtus I suffered.2 He commanded that Christians should not be condemned without accusation. The same [emperor] overcame the Jews, rebelling for a second time, with a final banishment, and drove them out completely from the land of Jerusalem; he also determined that Jerusalem itself be called Aelia from his name.3
In the 116th year
¶The blessed Bishop Quadratus, disciple of the Apostles, by his faith and zeal gathered together the church that was scattered due to intense …
In the 117th year … fear by Hadrian’s persecution; he published a book full of faith and befitting apostolic teaching for the defence of the Christian religion.
In the 118th year the emperor Hadrian—most learned in both languages—erected the library of Athens, [a building] of wonderful workmanship.
In the 119th year

In the 120th year
¶Saint Sabrina, a virgin and most illustrious, suffered martyrdom.
¶Saint Serapia, virgin, suffered martyrdom. ¶The blessed man Aristides the Athenian, excelled in faith and wisdom: he acquired books about the Christian religion for the emperor Hadrian, and argued at length most eloquently to the same emperor in person that Jesus Christ is the only god.
In the 121st year

In the 122nd year

In the 123rd year Pope Evaristus passed away to the Lord; the blessed Alexander succeeded him.

In the 124th year ¶St Eustace suffered martyrdom for Christ with his wife and two sons.4

In the 125th year

In the 126th year

In the 127th year the blessed Pope Alexander died etc., as above; the blessed Sixtus succeeded him.

Notes

1 DB: This refers to the legend of how Trajan was baptized (centuries after his death) by the tears shed by St Gregory, moved by Trajan’s concern while on campaign that a widow be compensated for the death of her son. See The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, by an Anonymous Monk of Whitby, ed. Bertram Colgrave (Lawrence, Kan., 1968), pp. 126–9, 161–2; Colgrave remarks (at p. 161) that this story ‘was widely spread and gave rise to much discussion’.
2 DB: This brief comment anticipates the statement under AD 134 that Pope Sixtus was martyred in Hadrian’s time, as opposed to during the reign of Antonius Pius. Pope Sixtus is the only pope in this part of the Chronicle to be given a numeral; he is also ‘Sixtus I’ in AD 134.
3 DB: I.e., from Aelius (Hadrian’s first name).
4 DB: The martyrdom of St Eustace (surnamed Placidas), his wife Theopiste and sons Agapios and Theopistos is noted in only some versions of Usuard’s martyrology, not the two principal recensions (the martyrologies of Florus and Adon) used by Dubois in his edition: see Le Martyrologe d’Usuard. Texte et Commentaire, ed. Jacques Dubois (Brussels, 1965), pp. 143 and 334 (2 November).