Greek Ecclesiastical Historians of the First Six Centuries of the Christian Era
Greek Ecclesiastical Historians of the First Six Centuries of the Christian Era
Eng Suffolk Parish Thorington
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He ordered them to be scourged with CHA1\ XIV. ] ACTS OF VIOLENCE. A. D. 356. 121 branches of palm trees ; and the thorns were driven so deeply into their flesh, that it was long before they could be extracted by the surgical operations which were afterwards resorted to; and those who were not able to bear the agony died under it. He banished all those who survived, and also the virgins, to the Greater Oasis. He refused to give up the bodies of those who had been killed to their relations for s...epulture; his partisans concealed some of these corpses, and others they flung away without a tomb, in order to show that they Avere unconcerned in these cruel trans- actions, and ignorant of them. But they were deceived in this foolish expectation : for the friends of the slain, while they rejoiced at the faithfulness of the deceased, deeply lamented the loss of the corpses, and spread abroad a full account of the cruelty that had been perpetrated. The following bishops were banished from Egypt and from Lybia: — Amnion, Muius, Caius, Philo, Hermes, Pliny, Psinosis, Nilammon, Agapius, Ana- gamphus, Mark, Draco, Adelphus, another Amnion, another Mark, and Athenodorus; and also the pres- byters, Hierax and Dioscorus.
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