Anicetus
Americannoun
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Mother wit came to the rescue in the person of Anicetus the freedman, preceptor of Nero’s boyish years, and detested by Agrippina with a vigour which was reciprocated.
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“Dost thou too forsake me?” she began, and saw Anicetus behind her, accompanied by Herculeius, the trier-arch, and Obaritus, a centurion of marines.
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Arrived in Rome I composed the succession until Anicetus, whose deacon was Eleutherus.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard
Anicetus and Pius, Hyginus with Telesphorus and Xystus, neither did themselves observe, nor did they permit those after them to observe it.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
Nor could the conference between Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna in Asia Minor, and Anicetus, bishop of Rome, about A.D.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
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