Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 42
42 Apollonius the senator PL 23, 657
Apollonius, a Roman senator under the emperor Commodus, having been denounced by a slave as a Christian, gained permission to give a reason for his faith and wrote a remarkable volume which he read in the senate, yet none the less, by the will of the senate, he was beheaded for Christ by virtue of an ancient law among them, that Christians who had once been brought before their judgment seat should not be dismissed unless they recanted.
Apollonius, Romanae urbis senator, sub Commodo principe a servo Severo proditus, quod Christianus esset, impetrato, ut rationem fidei suae redderet, insigne volumen composuit, quod in senatu legit; et nihilominus sententia senatus, pro Christo capite truncatus est veteri apud eos obtinente lege, absque negatione non dimitti Christianos, qui semel ad eorum judicium pertracti essent.
Ἀπολλώνιος. Ῥώμης συγκλητικὸς, ἐπὶ Κομόδου τοῦ βασιλέως παρὰ τοῦ δούλου παρὰ Σεβήρῳ προδοθεὶς Χριστιανὸς εἶναι, ἐπιταγείς τε τῆς οἰκείας πίστεως δοῦναι λόγον, μέγα τεῦχος συνέταξεν, ὅπερ ἐν τῇ συγκλήτῳ ἀνέγνω, καὶ οὕτως οὐδὲν ἧττον ἀποφάσει τῆς συγκλήτου, ὑπὲρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀπετμήθη, παλαιᾶς παρ' αὐτοῖς κατεχούσης συνηθείας, δίχα ἀρνήσεως μὴ ἀφεθῆναι τοὺς Χριστιανοὺς, τοὺς ἅπαξ εἰς τὴν αὐτῶν ἀκρόασιν ἐλκυσθέντας.