Phlegon of Tralles
Phlegon of Tralles ( "Flegon o Trallianos") was a Greek writer and freedman of the emperor Hadrian, who lived in the 2nd century AD. Works. His chief work was the "Olympiads", an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BC to AD 137), of which several chapters are preserved in Eusebius' "Chronicle", Photius and George Syncellus. Two short works by him are extant. "On Marvels" consists of "anecdotes culled from sources as diverse as the Greek poet Hesiod and the Roman natural historian Pliny the Elder. Each... recounts a fantastical or  paranormal event." "On Long-Lived Persons" contains a list of Italians who had passed the age of 100, taken from the censuses of the Roman Empire. Other works ascribed to Phlegon in the "Suda" are a description of Sicily, a work on the Roman festivals in three books, and a topography of Rome: Reference to Jesus. Origen of Alexandria (182-254 AD), in "Against Celsus" (Book II, Chap. XIV), wrote that Phlegon, in his "Chronicles", mentions Jesus: "Now Phlegon, in the thirteenth or fourteenth book, I think, of his Chronicles, not only ascribed to Jesus a knowledge of future events  (although falling into confusion about some things which refer to Peter, as if they referred to Jesus), but also testified that the result corresponded to His predictions." He referred to a description by Phlegon of an eclipse accompanied by earthquakes during the reign of Tiberius: that there was "the greatest eclipse of the sun" and that "it became night in the sixth hour of the day [i. e., noon] so that stars even appeared in the heavens. There was a great earthquake in Bithynia, and many things were overturned in Nicaea."