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HADRIAN, PIUS, AND MARCUS. 491
and consecrated. Anyhow the passive termination of ' Fulminata ' is not favourable
to the Christian story, as the fact of its perversion into ' Fuhninatrix ' shows. Borghesi
(1. c.) suggests that M. Aurelius altered the old name ' Fulminata ' into ' Fulminatrix,'
and De Rossi in his note to Borghesi accepts this explanation. We need hardly discuss
this improbable conjecture.
Eusebius distinctly states that Claudius Apollinaris represented the name Kepavvo-
^oXov (presumably the active KepavfojSoXoi', not the passive K€pavv6(io\ov) as having
been given to the legion by the emperor in consequence of the miraculous occurrence
(e^ eKeivov (pijcras rrjv SC evxv^ to wapado^ov TreiroLrjKViav XeYewj'a oUeiav rt^ yeyovoTi
irpos rod ^aaiX^ws elX-qcpivai -rrpocryjyopiav, K€pai>vo[B6\ov rp 'Pufiaiuv ewLKKrjdetdav
(poovrj).
As Apollinaris wrote almost immediately after the occurrence,
it is difficult
to suppose that he could have fallen into this error. I have therefore suggested elsewhere
[Colossians p. 6i) that he used some ambiguous expression implying that it
was fitly so named (e.g. eTrwuvpLOf rrjs cmvTi'xias), which Eusebius and later writers
misunderstood ; just as Eusebius himself elsewhere (v. 24) speaks
of Irenaeus as
(j>€p(iivvix6s Tis uv TTj TTpoffrjyoplo. avTi^ T€ T(2 Tpoiruj eipyjvoTToios. Thus in Eusebius'
account we may suspect that oiKeiav rqi yeyovdri wpotrrjyopiav is an expression borrowed
from Apollinaris himself, while irpbs tou jSatrtXews €l\y)