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Melito dates his own work, which is rare enough to be worth saying: while Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, at the time when Sagaris suffered martyrdom, there arose in Laodicea a great strife concerning the Passover, and these things were written. He is not recorded as a party to the strife at Laodicea — he says only that it happened and that he wrote then, and this dataset does not make him a participant in it. Eusebius' fragment is all that survives of the two books. A Paschal homily recovered on papyrus in the twentieth century, the Peri Pascha, is generally identified with this work, and the identification is standard but argued; the work chip on this page carries that title because Wikidata does.
To settle what the Pascha is and when it is kept, at the moment a quarrel about it broke out in the next city.
Two books, of which Eusebius quotes the opening sentence and nothing else survives under that title.