From his acts, written by the church of Smyrna in an excellent circular
letter to the churches of Pontus, immediately after his martyrdom: a
piece abridged by Eusebius, b. 4, c. 14, highly esteemed by the
ancients. Joseph Scaliger, a supercilious critic, says that nothing in
the whole course of church history so strongly affected him, as the
perusal of these acts, and those relating to the martyrs of Lyons: that
he never read them but they gave him extraordinary emotions. Animad. in
Chron. Eusebii, n. 2183, &c. They are certainly most valuable pieces of
Christian antiquity. See Eusebius, St. Jerom, and St. Irenaeus. Also
Tillemont, t. 2, p. 327. Dom Ceillier, t. 1. Dom Marechal, Concordance
des Peres Grecs et Latins, t. 1.