Quote: Also "Church fathers" would quoted the same works in their apologetic works, however the reality is none of this occurred, which is significant in itself.
Bingo, Just. There was a veritable forgery factory going on as xtian writers sought to find references to their godboy in antiquity. As you say, had there been actual references they would have preserved them and trumpeted them instead of writing sorry bullshit like Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum.
