Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 1.1-1.2
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Καισαρείας τῆς Παλαιστίνης

, and

Caesarea in Palestine.

are directly attested at Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 1.1-1.2. This passage was written ca. 315 – 316 CE possibly in Caesarea.

Πρῶτος τοιγαροῦν τῶν ἐπὶ Παλαιστίνης μαρτύρων Προκόπιος, πρὶν ἢ φυλακῆς πεῖραν λαβεῖν, εὐθὺς ἀπὸ πρώτης εἰσόδου τοῖς ἡγεμονικοῖς παραστὰς δικαστηρίοις, θύειν τε τοῖς λεγομένοις προσταχθεὶς θεοῖς, ἔνα μόνον ἔφησεν εἰδέναι, ᾧ καθῆκεν ὡς αὐτὸς βούλεται θύειν· ὡς δὲ κἂν τοῖς βασιλεῦσι τέσσαρσι σπένδειν ἐκελεύετο, ῥῆμά τι φθεγξάμενος τῶν οὐ προσηνῶν αὐτοῖς αὐτίκα τὴν κεφαλὴν άποτέμνεται, τὸ ποιητικὸν εἰπὼν ἐκεῖνο “οὐκ ἀγαθὸν πολυκοιρανίη, εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω, εἶς βασιλεύς.” Δεσίου μηνὸς ἑβδόμῃ, πρὸ ἑπτὰ εἰδῶν Ἰουνίων λέγοιτ’ ἂν παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις, ἡμέρᾳ τετράδι σαββάτου τοῦτο πρῶτον ἐπὶ Καισαρείας τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἀπετελέσθη σημεῖον.

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The first of the martyrs of Palestine was Procopius, who, before he had received the trial of imprisonment, immediately on his first appearance before the governor’s tribunal, having been ordered to sacrifice to the so-called gods, declared that he knew only one to whom it was proper to sacrifice, as he himself wills. But when he was commanded to offer libations to the four emperors, having quoted a sentence which displeased them, he was immediately beheaded. The quotation was from the poet: “The rule of many is not good; let there be one ruler and one king.” It was the seventh day of the month Desius, the seventh before the ides of June, as the Romans reckon, and the fourth day of the week, when this first example was given at Caesarea in Palestine.

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