Scholten: see above. | Scholten, _Die aelt. Zeugnisse_,
| p. 51 f. The Ignatian Epistles are
| declared to be spurious for various
| reasons, but partly "because they
| mention a martyr-journey of Ignatius
| to Rome, the unhistorical character
| of which, already earlier recognised
| (see Baur, _Urspr. des Episc._ 1838,
| p. 147 ff., _Die Ign. Briefe_, 1848;
| Schwegler, _Nachap. Zeitalt._ ii.
| p. 159 ff.; Hilgenfeld, _Apost.
| Vaeter_, p. 210 ff.; Reville,
| _Le Lien_, 1856, Nos. 18-22), is
| made all the more probable by
| Volkmar's not groundless conjecture.
| According to it Ignatius is reported
| to have become the prey of wild beasts
| on the 20th December, 115, not in the
| amphitheatre in Rome by the order of
| the mild Trajan, but in Antioch
| itself, as the victim of superstitious
| popular fury consequent on an
| earthquake which occurred on the
| 13th December of that year.
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