70. Though we cannot receive with entire confidence either
the epistles or the acts of Ignatius (they may be found in
the second volume of the Apostolic Fathers), yet we may
quote that bishop of Antioch as one of these 'exemplary'
martyrs. He was sent in chains to Rome as a public
spectacle; and when he arrived at Troas he received the
pleasing intelligence that the persecution of Antioch was
already at an end.