From the Work on the Passover

Fragments. The following Fragments of Melito are translated from the Greek, except No. IX., which is taken from the Latin.

I.

From the Work on the Passover. In Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., iv. 26. [Melito wrote two books on the Paschal and one On the Lord’s Day (ὁ περὶ κυριακῆς λόγος), according to Eusebius. But is this On the Lord’s Day other than one of the books on the Paschal? It may be doubted. Routh refers us to Barnabas. See vol. i. cap. 15, note 7, p. 147, this series. See also Dionysius of Corinth, infra.]

When Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, at the time that Sagaris[1] suffered martyrdom, there arose a great controversy at Laodicea concerning the time of the celebration of the Passover, which on that occasion had happened to fall at the proper season;[2] and this treatise was then written.[3]