Writing to the Roman bishop Victor, at the end of the 2nd century CE, Polycrates of Ephesus defends the Quartodeciman observation of Pascha by referring to seven figures, all of whom were bishops, all of whom were his “kinspeople” (συγγενεῖς), and all of whom had kept Pascha (Easter; Passover) in accordance with the Quartodeciman tradition. Among them he refers to “Melito the eunu…