He had been carefully instructed by his Father, as well in all the several Parts of prophane Literature, as, N OW again, at the Pleasure of Severus, broke out a new Persecution, which spread it self over the Face of the whole Christian World yet Alexandria seem’d to be the Center of its Fury, where, among Multitudes of Martyrs, who by Faith and Patience defeated all the fiery Darts of the Adversary, suffer’d Leonides, the Father of Origen, in the Tenth Year of Severus, and under the Episcopate of Demetrius, Successor to Julian in the Throne of Alexandria, before Origen had yet attain’d the Seventeenth Year of his Age. London : Printed for George Sawbridge at the Three Flower de-Luces in Little Britain, 1703 pp. From Eusebius Pamphilus : His Ten Books of Ecclesiastical History, Faithfully Translated and Abridg’d from the Original, by Samuel Parker, Gent.
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