Fragment of Quadratus's Apology
Saint Quadratus, Bishop of Athens · c. 125 AD
Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.
Earliest of the Christian apologists, addressed his work to the emperor Hadrian (c. 124). The bulk of his apology is lost; a brief but striking fragment is preserved by Eusebius (Ecclesiastical History 4.3), in which Quadratus appeals to eyewitnesses of Christ's miracles who were still alive within living memory.