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...corresponds with the reign of the younger Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals.(44) When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians,...Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders...