Bellum deinde contra Parthos Hannibalis uirtute feliciter gesserunt.
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A[nno] colxviio Eleutherius Romę presul post Sotherem factus est cui Eleutherio Lucius rex Britannię literas misit.
& ut Christianus efficeretur petiit, & impetrauit.
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A[nno] colxxiiiio Anicio papa migrante de hoc mundo succedit Sother.

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A[nno] colxxxo Marco Antonino cum regnasset annis xix & uno mense Lucius Antoninus Commodus filius
eius successit, qui etiam cum patre iam ante regnauerat post mortem Lucii Aurelii. Hic aduersus Germa
nos bellum feliciter gessit. Ceterum ipse per omnia luxurię & obscenitati mancipatus nil paternę uirtutis
& pietatis simile gessit. ¶Commodus imperator Colossi capite sublato suę ymaginis caput
ei iussit imponi.
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A[nno] colxxxiio Eleutherio successit Uictor xvus a Petro. Uictori Zephirinus. Secundum Hugonem Sother
papa hoc anno decessit, cui successit Eleutherius xv annis iii mensibus, diebus vque papatum tenens.
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Notes

Next, a war was waged successfully against the Parthians by the bravery of Hannibal.1
In the 166th year

In the 167th year Eleutherius was made bishop of Rome after Soter. Lucius king of Britain sent a letter to Eleutherius; indeed, he sought and petitioned so that he might become a Christian.
In the 168th year

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In the 172nd year

In the 173rd year

In the 174th year, after Pope Anicius passed away from this world, Soter succeeded.

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In the 179th year

In the 180th year, when Marcus Antoninus had reigned for 19 years and one month, his son Lucius Antoninus Commodus succeeded, who previously also ruled with his father all the time after the death of Lucius Aurelius. He waged war successfully against the Germans; he otherwise devoted himself in every way to indecency and luxury, and acted without any fatherly strength of character or manner of kindness. ¶The emperor Commodus, after the head of Colossus was removed, ordered a head in his own likeness to be set on it.2
In the 181st year

In the 182nd year, Victor succeeded Eleutherius, the 15th after Peter: Zephirinus [succeeded] Victor. According to Hugh,3 Pope Soter died this year; Eleutherius succeeded him, holding the papacy for 15 years, 3 months [and] 5 days.
In the 183rd year

In the 184th year

Notes

1 DB: If this is a reference to Hannibal (the most famous Hannibal being the Carthaginian general who lived about four centuries earlier, who could have been known via versions of Livy’s history of Rome), it is the result of a misreading. In CM (ed. Mommsen, §326) the sentence reads: Bellum deinde contra Parthos ammirabili uirtute et felicitate gesserunt, ‘Next, a war was waged against the Parthians with wonderful bravery and success’. At some stage ammirabili has become hannibalis (i.e., Hannibalis).
2 DB: I.e., on the headless Colossus. The sentence is exactly as in CM (ed. Mommsen, §336), and not abbreviated in any way.
3 DB: This is not a cross-reference to Hugh of St Victor’s chronology given earlier in the manuscript: at f. 29v Eleutherius succeeds Soter in AD 184, and reigns for 15 years, 6 months and 5 or 6 days.