Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 19
19 Quadratus the bishop PL 23, 637
Quadratus, disciple of the apostles, after Publius bishop of Athens had been crowned with martyrdom on account of his faith in Christ, was substituted in his place, and by his faith and industry gathered the church scattered by reason of its great fear. And when Hadrian passed the winter at Athens to witness the Eleusinian mysteries and was initiated into almost all the sacred mysteries of Greece, those who hated the Christians took opportunity without instructions from the Emperor to harass the believers. At this time he presented to Hadrian a work composed in behalf of our religion, indispensable, full of sound argument and faith and worthy of the apostolic teaching. In which, illustrating the antiquity of his period, he says that he has seen many who, oppressed by various ills, were healed by the Lord in Judea as well as some who had been raised from the dead.
Quadratus Apostolorum discipulus, Publio Athenarum episcopo, ob Christi fidem martyrio coronato, in locum ejus substituitur, et Ecclesiam grandi terrore dispersam, fide et industria sua congregat. Cumque Hadrianus 861 Athenis exegisset hiemem, invisens Eleusina, et omnibus pene Graeciae sacris initiatus dedisset occasionem bis, qui Christianos oderant, absque praecepto Imperatoris vexare credentes; porrexit ei librum pro religione nostra compositum, valde utilem, plenumque rationis et fidei, et Apostolica doctrina dignum, in quo et antiquitatem suae aetatis ostendens, ait, plurimos a se visos qui sub Domino variis in Judaea oppressi calamitatibus, sanati fuerant, et qui a mortuis resurrexerant.
Κουαδράτος τῶν Ἀποστόλων μαθητὴς, παθάντος Πουβλίου Ἀθηναίων Ἐπισκόπου ὑπὲρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν τόπον ὑπεισέρχεται, καὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐν μεγάλῃ ταραχῇ διασκορπισθεῖσαν συνάγει. Καὶ ἡνίκα Ἀδριανὸς ἐν Ἀθήναις ἐχείμασεν ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι γενόμενος, καὶ 862 πάντα σχεδὸν τὰ τῆς Ἑλλάδος μυστήρια μυηθεὶς, δέδωκεν ἀφορμὴν ἐπὶ τὸ τοὺς μισοῦντας τοὺς Χριστιανοὺς, καὶ δίχα βασιλικὴς κελεύσεως κολάσει, ἐπέδωκε βίβλον ὑπὲρ τῆς ἡμετέρας θρησκείας συντεθεῖσαν, πάνυ χρηστὴν, καὶ γέμουσαν λογισμοῦ καὶ πίστεως, ἀξίαν τε τῆς Ἀποστολικῆς παιδεύσεως, ἐν ᾗ καὶ τὴν ἀρχαιότητα τῆς ἰδίας ἡλικίας δεικνὺς, ἔφη, πολλοὺς ἑωρακέναι τοὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου ποικίλαις ἐν τῆ Ἰουδαίᾳ κάμνοντας νόσοις ἰαθέντας, καὶ ὅτι τινες ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνέστησαν.