Eusebius of Caesarea · a new plain-English translation from the Greek
1| And now I put the question to you, Decius, you who once trampled on the labors of the righteous, who hated the church, who brought Vengeance down on those who had lived holy lives: what are you doing now that your life is over? In what circumstances are you held, and how hard are they to escape? Even the time between your life and your death displayed your good fortune, when you fell with your whole army on the plains of Scythia and made the far-famed might of the Romans an object of contempt to the Getae.
2| But you, Valerian, who showed the same bloodthirstiness toward the subjects of God, made the holy judgment plain: you were captured and led away a prisoner in chains, with your very purple and the rest of your imperial regalia, and at last, flayed and preserved by order of Sapor, king of the Persians, you set up an everlasting trophy of your own misfortune.
3| And you too, Aurelian, firebrand of every wrong: how conspicuously, as you were rushing in frenzy through Thrace, you were cut down in the middle of the highway, and drenched the road’s furrows with your impious blood!
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