74. As a specimen of these legends, we may be satisfied with
10,000 Christian soldiers crucified in one day, either by
Trajan or Hadrian, on Mount Ararat. See Baronius ad
Martyrologium Romanum; Tillemont, Mem. Ecclesiast. tom. ii.
part ii. p. 438; and Geddes's Miscellanies, vol. ii. p. 203.
The abbreviation of MIL., which may signify either
'soldiers' or 'thousands', is said to have occasioned some
extraordinary mistakes.