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Martyrdoms
Most of Musurillo's martyrdoms are legitimate. Barnes, however, believes that a few of them are bogus (NE, 177). These would be those of Julius the veteran (BHL 4555), Dasius (BHG 491), and Irenaeus of Sirmium (BHL 4466). Also: The acta of Crispina (BHL 1989a/b) contain interpolations, and the earliest ["most primitive" means earliest, right? Maybe? Probably?] Acta Eulpi (BHG 629) "descends abruptly from reality to fiction" (at p. 312.16 Musurillo). Musurillo should also have included the Sermo de passione Donati (BHL 2303b), since (Barnes assures us), it "appears...to rank with authentic acta in the standard collections."

"Wholly authentic" martyrdoms, according to Barnes (NE, 177–78): The Acta Eupli and Acta Crispinae can also be trusted to provide legitimate names of Roman officials, "even if no confirmatory evidence exists", for some reason (NE, 179). The trial of Agape, Irene, and Chione also reproduces an official report "without detectable alteration, but with additions at the beginning and end which can hardly be contemporary."
 * 1) Acta Maximiliani (295). Barnes notes that editors of this text have been "inexcusably" lazy, for they have not followed Delehaye's century-old complaint that "the text leaves much to be desired, and should be reviewed on [with the aid of?] the manuscripts". [PAGE BREAK]
 * 2) Passio Marcelli (298)
 * 3) Acta Felicis (303)
 * 4) Umm...Something in Greek? (= Musurillo 22, so I'll look it up back at home.)
 * 5) Letter of Phileas: Eusebius, HE 8.10 = Musurillo 26
 * 6) Acta Phileae (307): (a) Greek (= Musurillo 27A) (b) Latin (= Musurillo 27B)
 * 7) Testamentum XL martyrum (= Musurillo 28)

"Even though Christians in the eastern armies were ordered to sacrifice in 299..." (NE, 180) So Barnes holds true to the 299 theory? That's interesting. "These facts [the dates of persecution, from 303 to 306 in W, from 303 to 311 in Danubian regions, from 303 to 313 in Asia, from 320 to 324 under Licinius] were too prosaic for generations of hagiographers, who replaced them with a "heroic age" of early Christianity in which Diocletian indulged in a vicious persecution throughout the twenty years of his rule. Many passions and acta martyrum depict Diocletian as ordaining persecution by imperial edict long before 303 – a fact which alone convicts them of invention and usually suffices to damn the magistrates whom they name." (NE, 180).

Roll call

 * Source: Hixon, Sheila, and Ruth Rose, eds. The Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention 1972. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2005, 382–391. Available online at the University of Michigan Digital Library.

Emendations

 * Source: Hixon, Sheila, and Ruth Rose, eds. The Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention 1972. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2005, 391–398. Available online at the University of Michigan Digital Library.

Final tally

 * Source: Hixon, Sheila, and Ruth Rose, eds. The Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention 1972. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2005, 398. Available online at the University of Michigan Digital Library.

Party control of the House, Senate, and Presidency
I should find someone to help distinguish Southern Democrat- and Republican-controlled Congresses from pure Northern Democrat-controlled ones.