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360 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. he orders her to be cast into the sea. Proceeding next from her to the other confessors, he consigned them all to the mines at Phoeno in Palestine. After this, on the fifth of the month Dius, on the nones of November, Roman style, in the same city, Silvanus, who was yet a presbyter, became a confessor, and not long after he was both honoured with the episcopate, and finally crowned with martyrdom. The same judge condemned those who exhibited the noblest firmness in the cause of piety, to la bour in the same mines, having first ordered their ancles to be disabled by searing with red hot irons. At the same time that this sentence was passed, he ordered one who had rendered him self illustrious on innumerable occasions of confession, to be com mitted to the flames. This was Domninus, well known to all in Palestine, for his great freedom. After which, this judge, who was a terrible inventor of miseries, and particularly ingenious in new devices against the doctrine of Christ, planned torments against the Christians, such as had never before been heard of. He condemned three to pugilistic combat ; but Anxentius, a grave and holy presbyter, he ordered to be cast to the beasts, others who had reached the age of maturity, he made eunuchs, and con demned them to the mines ; others again, after dreadful tortures, he cast into prison. Among these was Pamphilus that dearest* of my friends and associates, a man who for every virtue was the most illustrious martyr of our times. Urbanus having first made trial of his skill in the art of rhetoric, and the studies of philosophy, after this attempted to force him to oifer sacrifice. When he saw him refusing, and not even regarding his threats, at last becoming transported with rage, he orders him to be tortured with more excruciating pains. Then this monster in cruelty ob stinately and incessantly applied the instruments, to furrow and lacerate his sides, all but entering and feeding upon his very flesh, and yet after all, defeated and covered with shame, he committed likewise him to those confessors in prison. But what * This is the Pamphilus from whom Eusebius obtained the surname of Pamphi lus. This, however, should not be understood as a surname, but as an appellation indicative of attachment to his friend. It should be written in its original, EWO-^IOS v, Eusebius, the friend of Pamphilus ; t\os being understood