thus writing down certain matters as he remembered them. For to one thing he gave attention, to leave out nothing of what he heard and to make no false statements in them (τοῦ μηδὲν ὧν ἤκουσεν παραλιπεῖν ἤ ψεύσασθαί τι ἐν αὐτοῖς) (HE 3.39.15ff.; Aland, Synopsis 547). Based on the evidence from Eusebius, Papias’ writing should now be dated to the first decade of the second century (cf. HE 3.34–39), rather than using the later Philip of Side (early fifth century) to date it some time