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Papias

Early Christian writer (from early 2nd century). Eusebius quotes him in Ecclesiastical History as making the following comment on the Gospel of Matthew: "Matthew put the logia in an ordered arrangement."


Plutarch

Secular Greek historian, A.D. 46-120. Wrote a biography of the Life of Cicero, which is an example of how even secular biographies at that time tried to preserve accurate records.