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XXI. Μικρῷ δὲ πλέον ἐνιαυτοῦ βασιλεύσαντα Νερούαν διαδέχεται Τραϊανός· οὗ δὴ πρῶτον ἔτος ἦν ἐν ᾧ τῆς κατ’ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν παροικίας Ἀβίλιον δέκα πρὸς τρισὶν ἔτεσιν ἡγησάμενον διαδέχεται Κερδῶν· τρίτος οὗτος τῶν αὐτόθι μετὰ τὸν πρῶτον ᾿Αννιανὸν προέστη. ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Ῥωμαίων εἰς ἔτι Κλήμης ἡγεῖτο, τρίτον καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπέχων τῶν τῇδε μετὰ Παῦλόν τε καὶ Πέτρον ἐπισκοπευσάντων βαθμόν· Λίνος δὲ ὁ πρῶτος ἢν καὶ μετ’ αὐτὸν ᾿Ανέγκλητος .
XXI. After Nerva had reigned a little more than a year he was succeeded by Trajan, in whose first year Abilius, after leading the diocese of Alexandria for thirteen years, was succeeded by Cerdo; he was the third in charge of that see after the first, Annianus. At this time Clement was still governing the Romans, and he, also, occupied the third place in the list of bishops in Rome after Paul and Peter; Linus was the first and after him Anencletus.