Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 2.4
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εἰς δεσμὰ

, and

prison,

are directly attested at Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 2.4. This passage was written ca. 315 – 316 CE possibly in Caesarea.

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.

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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.

[Translation corrected and adapted from its source.]

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