Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 9.6-9.7
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γίνεται δ’ οὖν αὐτοῖς συναπόδημος ἐπ’ αὐτῆς ἡμέρας Ἐνναθὰς τῶν ἀπὸ Σκυθοπόλεώς τις γυνὴ, στέμματι καὶ αὐτὴ κεκοσμημένη, οὐ ταὐτὸν μὲν αὐτοῖς διαπραξαμένη, ἑλχθεῖσα δὲ βίᾳ καὶ προσαχθεῖσα τῷ δικαστῇ. μετὰ μάστιγας οὖν καἰ δεινὰς ὕβρεις, ἃς ἐπήγαγεν αὐτῇ, οὐδὲ μετὰ γνώμης τῆς μείζονος ἐξουσίας, τῶν κατὰ γειτνίαν ἐφεστώτων τις χιλιάρχων ἐτόλμα, Μάξυς ὄνομα, χείρων τῆς προσηγορίας ἄνθρωπος, μιαρὸς μὲν τὰ ἄλλα, ἰσχυρὸς δ’ ὑπερβαλλόντως τὸ ἦθος, καὶ τὸν πάντα τρόπον δεινός τις ὄντως καὶ παρὰ πᾶσι τοῖς γνωρίμοις διαβεβλημένος, οὗτος μέν γε ἐσθῆτος ἁπάσης τὴν μακαρίαν ἀποδύσας, ὡς τὴν ἐξ ὀσφύος αὐτὸ μόνον καὶ ἐπὶ πόδας καλύπτεσθαι, τὸ δ’ ἄλλο σῶμα γυμνὸν ἔχειν, τήν τε πάσαν Καισαρέων πόλιν κύκλῳ περιαγαγὼν, ἱμᾶσιν ἀνὰ πάσας ἑλκομένην τὰς ἀγορὰς τύπτεσθαι περὶ πολλοῦ ποιεῖται.1
Translation
There was associated with them on the same day Ennathas, a woman from Scythopolis, who was adorned with the chaplet of virginity. She did not indeed do as they had done, but was dragged by force and brought before the judge. She endured scourgings and cruel insults, which Maxys, a tribune of a neighboring district, without the knowledge of the superior authority, dared to inflict upon her. He was a man worse than his name, sanguinary in other respects, exceedingly harsh, and altogether cruel, and censured by all who knew him. This man stripped the blessed woman of all her clothing, so that she was covered only from her loins to her feet and the rest of her body was bare. And he led her through the entire city of Caesarea, and regarded it as a great thing to beat her with thongs while she was dragged through all the markets.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: 9.6-9.7.
- 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: 9.6-9.7.
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: 9.6-9.7.
- 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: 9.6-9.7.
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Eliana Yonan et al., “Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 9.6-9.7,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 10, 2020, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/193.
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