Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 2.4
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μεθ’ ἣν τιμωρίαν εἰς δεσμὰ βληθεὶς, πλεῖστόν τε αὐτόθι πονηθεὶς χρόνον, τέλος τῆς ἀρχικῆς εἰκοσαετηρίδος ἐπιστάσης, κατὰ νομιζομένην δωρεὰν τῶν ἐν τοῖς δεσμοῖς πανταχῆ πάντων ἐλευθερίας ἀνακηρυχθείσης, μόνος ὑπὸ πέντε κεντήματα ἄμφω τὼ πόδε διαταθεὶς, ἐν αὐτῷ κείμενος τῷ ξύλῳ βρόχῳ περιβληθεὶς, ὡς καὶ ἐπεπόθει, μαρτυρίῳ κατεκοσμήθη.1
Translation
After this punishment he was thrown into prison, and suffered there for a very long time. At last the twentieth anniversary of the emperor being near, when, according to an established gracious custom, liberty was proclaimed everywhere to all who were in bonds, he alone had both his feet stretched over five holes in the stocks, and while he lay there was strangled, and was thus honored with martyrdom, as he desired.2
Translation Note
Translation corrected and adapted from its source.Works Cited
- 1 Eusebius of Caesarea, De martyribus Palaestinae (Recensio Brevior): Machine Readable Text, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf (Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 2014), section: 2.4.
- 2 Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine: Machine Readable Text, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. Arthur Cushman McGiffert (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 1993), section: 2.4.
Additional Bibliography
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Liber de martyribus Palestinae, in Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf, vol. 4, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig: Teubner, 1867), 383–418, section: 2.4.
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine, in Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, and Oration in Praise of Constantine., ed. Arthur Cushman McGiffert et al., repr. of American ed., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 2nd Series 1 (New York: Christian Literature Publishing, 1890), 342–56, section: 2.4.
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