suggest that the notice in Eusebius is of little help in dating On Pascha. Nonetheless we may gather from the dating of the Apology and from Melito’s position in Polycrates’ catalogue that Melito flourished in the third quarter of the second century. Thirdly we may deduce from Polycrates’ statements here that Melito was Jewish by birth. Polycrates lists seven great lights of Asia who had been Quartodecimans, and then adds himself as a “supernumerary eighth.” The particular great lights enumerated