Eusebius of Caesarea · a new plain-English translation from the Greek
1| On the fourteenth day of the next month, Apellaeus (that is, the nineteenth day before the Kalends of January), some more Egyptians were arrested by the men who searched travelers at the city gates. They had set out to minister to the confessors in Cilicia. Some of them received the same sentence as those they had come to serve: they were crippled in their eyes and their feet. But three of them, in Ascalon, where they had been held, gave an astonishing display of courage and won differing ends of martyrdom. One of them, called Ares, was handed over to the fire; the others, whose names were Promus and Elias, were beheaded.
2| On the eleventh day of the month Audynaeus (which would be the third day before the Ides of January), at that same Caesarea, Peter the ascetic, who was also named Apselamus, a native of the village of Anea in the territory of Eleutheropolis, offered proof through fire, like the purest gold, of his faith in God's Christ, with a noble resolve. The judge and those around him begged him over and over to show himself mercy and to spare his own youth and prime of life, but he disregarded them, and preferred to everything, even to life itself, his hope in the God of all things.
3| With him a certain Asclepius, who was reputed to be a bishop of the Marcionite error, moved by zeal for piety, as he supposed, though not of the kind that goes with full knowledge, nevertheless departed this life on one and the same pyre. But so much for these things.
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