Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 10.2
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Αὐδυναίου δὲ μηνὸς ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ καὶ δεκάτῃ, εἴη δ’ ἂν ἡ πρὸ τριῶν Εἰδῶν Ἰαννουαρίων, ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς Καισαρείας Πέτρος ἀσκητὴς, ὁ καὶ Ἀψέλαμος, ἀπὸ Ἀνέας κώμης τῶν ὅρων Ἐλευθεροπόλεως, διὰ πυρὸς, οἶα χρυσὸς ἀκραιφνέστατος, τῆς εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ πίστεως εὐγενεῖ λογισμῷ τὴν δοκιμὴν ἀποδέδωκε, μυρία μὲν λιπαροῦντας τόν τε δικαστὴν καὶ τοὺς ἀμφ’ αὐτὸν, ὡς ἂν ἐλεήσειέ τε αὐτὸν καὶ τῆς ἰδίας φείσαιτο νεότητός τε καὶ ἀκμῆς, ὑπεριδὼν, προτιμήσας δ’ ἁπάντων καὶ ζωῆς αὐτῆς τὴν ἐπὶ τὸν τῶν ὅλων θεὸν ἐλπίδα.1
Translation
On the eleventh day of the month Audynaeus, which is the third before the Ides of January, in the same city of Cæsarea, Peter an ascetic, also called Apselamus, from the village of Anea on the borders of Eleutheropolis, like purest gold, gave noble proof by fire of his faith in the Christ of God. Though the judge and those around him besought him many times to have compassion on himself, and to spare his own youth and bloom, he disregarded them, preferring hope in the God of the universe to all things, even to life itself.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: 10.2.
- 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: 10.2.
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: 10.2.
- 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: 10.2.
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