His work as a professional lawyer did not obstruct his travels, for he had seen Aetna, was amazed that at Alexandria the bishop did not honour the Lord by standing for the gospel, discovered that in Palestine the horrendous Apocalypse of Peter was read on Good Friday, and witnessed Hun prisoners of war working the fields in
Bithynia.
Aemilius Regilus at the Eurymedon (Kopru); subsequently fled to Crete and then to
Bithynia (Turkey, near the Sea of Marmara) where he poisoned himself to avoid capture; he is reputed to have said, "Let us release the Romans from their long anxiety, since they think it too long to wait for the death of an old man."
3 Asellus aquaticus 2 Astarte borealis 3 Balanus improvisus 2 Bathyporeia pilosa 3
Bithynia tentaculata 3 Boccardia redeki 2 Bylgides sarsi 3 Calliopius laeviusculus 3 Cerastoderma glaucum 2 Ceratopogonidae 2 Chelicorophium curvispinum 2 Chironomidae 1 Coleoptera 3 Collembola 3 Cordylophora caspia 2 Corixa spp.
During a persecution of Christians that occurred under the emperor Maximinus in the city of Nicomedia in
Bithynia, Asia Minor, historians of the period described the flow of "rivers of blood." Victims of this persecution included Anthimus, the bishop of Nicomedia, and numerous others memorialized as the "20,000 martyrs of Nicomedia."
Alexander and his accomplice travel with her from
Bithynia to Macedonia, where they purchase a large but tame serpent that they will use in their subsequent frauds (Alex.
His topics include the wars between Pergamon and
Bithynia, literary and epigraphic evidence for the history of Alexander and his first successors, Hellenism and Judaism in the age of Judas Maccabeus, and divine honors for king Antigonus Gonatas in Athens.
Memmius, who went as governor to
Bithynia in 57 B.C.E.
From
Bithynia, now in northern Turkey, a moderate and Conscientious Roman governor famously addressed his emperor about the problems posed by Christians in the year 96.
Although he died as an imperial magistrate in
Bithynia, Caesarius wanted to leave his wealth to the poor; and during his episcopacy at Constantinople Gregory dictated a will that left his possessions to the church at Nazianzus.
The famous Asclepiades of
Bithynia, according to Rufus of Ephesus, denied that there were sensory nerves, and Galen in his Method of Healing, and, at greater length, in Book 5 of his (lost) On the opinions of Asclepiades scornfully rejected his atomist explanation of pain and sensation.(7) In terms of doctrine, then, the passage could well apply to Asclepiades; but the degree of corruption of his name in the Arabic and Latin in order to reach 'Fisedis' would have had to be far greater than that of any other name or technical term elsewhere in De sententiis.
While there, he is said to have developed an indecent relationship with the king of
Bithynia, a powerful kingdom in northern Asia Minor.
In line 9, he assures the listener of the accuracy of his report on conditions in
Bithynia (respondi, id quod erat) and, in lines 16-17, admits his wish to impress the girl (ut puellae / unum me facerem beatiorem).
Bithynia - an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BC