Note 156 — Front matter (continued 6)
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Monsignor Maret boldly quotes Eusebius as saying (Book II. cap. xiv.) that Peter was not only the greatest and strongest of the Apostles, which is like what he says, but that he was the prince and patron of them all, which he does not say. That is said for him by the Latin translator. The one word προἡγορον, "spokesman," or champion, of Eusebius is deliberately turned into the two, "prince and patron"—Principem et patronum.—Maret, vol. i. p. 97.