Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 8.8
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ἐφ’ ᾧ θηρὸς ἀγρίου δίκην ὁ δικαστὴς ὀξυνθεὶς τὸν θυμὸν, τοσαύτας μὲν αὐτῇ πρότερον αἰκίας κατὰ τῶν πλευρῶν ἐπιτίθησιν, ὅσας οὐδενὶ τῶν πώποτε, μονονουχὶ καὶ ὠμῶν τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτῆς ἐμφορηθῆναι γλιχόμενος.· ὡς δὲ κόρον αὐτῶ ἤδη τὰ τῆς μανίας ἐλάμβανεν, ἄμφω ζεύξας, αὐτήν τε ταύτην ἅμα τῇ πρὸς αὐτῆς ἀδελφῇ προσαγορευθείσῃ, τὸν διὰ πυρὸς αὐτῶν καταψηφίζεται θάνατον. τούτων ἡ μὲν προτέρα τῆς Γαζαίων χώρας ἐλέγετο, τὴν δ’ ἑτέραν ἰστέον ἀπὸ τῆς Καισαρέων ὡρμῆσθαι, τὴν πολλοῖς γνώριμον Οὐαλεντῖναν τοὔνομα.1
Translation
Thereupon the judge, enraged like a wild beast, inflicted on her such tortures in her sides as he never had on any one before, striving almost to glut himself with her raw flesh. But when his madness was satiated, he bound them both together, this one and her whom she called sister, and condemned them to death by fire. It is said that the first of these was from the country of Gaza; the other, by name Valentina, was of Caesarea, and was well known to many.2
Works Cited
- 1 Eusebius of Caesarea, De martyribus Palaestinae (Recensio Brevior): Machine Readable Text, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf (Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 2014), section: 8.8.
- 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: 8.8.
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: 8.8.
- 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: 8.8.
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