Book 22
13.1
At that same time, on the twenty-second of October, the splendid temple of the Daphnaean Apollo, which that hot-tempered and cruel king Antiochus Epiphanes had built,According to others, the builder was Seleucus Nicator. Antiochus may have enlarged or embellished it. and with it the statue of the god, a copy of that of the Olympian ZeusAt Olympia, the work of Phidias; of. Pausanias, v. 11, 9. and of equal size, was reduced to ashes by a sudden fire.
13.2
The unexpected destruction of this shrine by so terrible an accident inflamed the emperor with such anger, that he ordered stricter investigations than usual to be made, and the greater church at Antioch to be closed. For he suspected that the Christians had done the deed, aroused by jealousy and unwillingness to see the temple enclosed by a magnificent colonnade.
