The life of Quadratus of the Seventy
In the year one hundred and twenty-six he wrote a defence of the Christians and had it laid before the emperor Hadrian. The writing did its work, for Hadrian gave orders that no one was to be condemned without a just cause shown. Eusebius still had the book in the fourth century and quoted from it, and only that quoted portion has come down to us. In it Quadratus says that those whom the Savior healed and raised were seen alive long after He had gone, and that some of them lived into his own day. At Athens a crowd set upon him with stones and he did not die of it. They put him in prison instead and left him there without food until he died. He was buried at Magnesia.
