Eusebius of Caesarea · a new plain-English translation from the Greek
1| At that same time, in those very days, in the city of the Tyrians, a youth, Ulpian by name, after he too had endured terrible tortures and the most savage scourging, was enclosed in a skin of raw oxhide together with a dog and an asp, that venomous serpent, and was handed over to the sea. For this reason I think it right that he too should be remembered by us alongside the martyrdom of Apphianus.
2| A little while later, Aedesius, who was Apphianus' brother in God, and in the flesh as well, born of the same father, suffered a fate akin to his. He had made confession upon confession beyond counting; he had endured the long-drawn miseries of chains and the sentences of governors, under which he was handed over to the mines in Palestine; and through all of this he had kept to the philosopher's way of life, wearing the philosopher's cloak, for he had received a fuller education than his brother and had set out from the study of philosophy.
3| At last, in the city of Alexandria, he saw the judge there passing sentence on Christians and raging against them beyond all bounds: at one moment heaping every kind of outrage on venerable men, at another handing over women of the highest chastity, virgins vowed to an ascetic life, to brothel-keepers for shameful abuse. Then he made the same venture as his brother. Because what was being done seemed to him past bearing, he went up to the judge with bold resolve and covered him with shame and disgrace by word and by deed. For this he endured, with great steadfastness, tortures of many kinds, and was then handed over to the sea, and so met the same end as his brother. These things concerning him, as I said, took place in this way a little while afterward.
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