Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 9.6-9.7
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πάσαν Καισαρέων πόλιν

, and

entire city of Caesarea,

are directly attested at Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 9.6-9.7. This passage was written ca. 315 – 316 CE possibly in Caesarea.

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.

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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.

[Translation corrected and adapted from its source.]

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