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360). Our choice therefore lies between the authority of Eusebius and the au- thority of the extant form of the Acts of Martyrdom. In favour of the omission it may be urged: (i) As a question of internal evidence; that the dove seems out of place. The blood does its work by extinguishing the fire ; but nothing more is heard of the dove. Unlike the doves of Eulalia and Benignus, it does not fly up heavenward, as we should expect ; (2) As a question of external evi- dence ; that Eusebius is in al...l proba- bility an older authority than the extant form of the Acts themselves ; that as he in this part generally gives the words of the document verbatim, he may be assumed to have done so here ; that there is no reason to sup- pose the dove would have been an offence to him, since elsewhere (H.E. vi. 29) he relates a somewhat similar portent, when Fabianus was desig- nated Bishop of Rome, ex pereapov wepta-Tepav KaTmrraiTav eiriKa6e
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