Lactantius,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died…
(1885)
“ But here our author says, according to the accurate edition of Walchius [4] (a.d. 1715) ,— “Exinde tetrarchas habuerunt usque ad Herodem, qui fuit sub imperio Tiberii Cæsaris: cujus anno quinto decimo, id est duobus Geminis consulibus, ante diem septimam Calendarum Aprilium, Judæi Christum cruci affixerunt.” But here, on the authority of forty manuscripts, Du Fresnoy reads, “ante diem decimam,” which he labours to reconcile with “post diem decimum,” as above. Jarvis adheres to the reading septimam, supported by more than fifty manuscripts, and decides for the 23d of March. ”
