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QUOTATIONS AND REFERENCES. 571<br />

denuo resuscitasse persecutionem, et<br />

quod malo peior princeps principi<br />

successisset in regno, et Galliarum provincias coram se suisque praesidibus,<br />

ac generaliter<br />

in cuncto populo sibi subdito promulgasse edictum,<br />

et decrevisse ut diversis omnes omnino punirentur suppliciis Christiani,<br />

B. Polycarpus sanctos Dei sacerdotes, id est, Andochium et Benignum<br />

presbyteros, et Thyrsum diaconum, illuc praedicationis causa destinavit,<br />

viros scilicet virtutibus praestantissimos, in Dei amore diffusos, ad certaminis<br />

agonem festinos, pro Christi<br />

nomine itinerum labores assumere<br />

omnino devotos, pericula maris sustinere non tardos, peregrinationes<br />

ambientes expetere hilares, ac parentes pro religione Christi gratanter<br />

relinquere, poenarum supplicia vel beatae mortis passionem desiderare<br />

potius, non timere.<br />

4. Qui viri tres obedientes Sanctis monitis, naviculam ascendentes,<br />

Sanctis sanctus valedicens Polycarpus ita tradidit in mandatis ;<br />

Ite viri<br />

fortes, in fortitudine Christi fortiter dimicantes, per<br />

sanctam Christi<br />

confessionem plures commilitones acquirite ;<br />

cum quibus de victoria<br />

triumphantes, nomen et dignitatis gloriam possitis adipisci sempiternam.<br />

Fructus laboris vestri multiplici opulentia cumulentur; justorum paradisi<br />

sedes per vos plurimum de sanctarum animarum adquisitione<br />

laetentur. His et aUis multis eos S. Polycarpus prosequebatur orationibus.<br />

Illi vero navigantes feliciter gubernatione<br />

littora celerius pervenerunt etc.<br />

divina ad Massiliensium<br />

These Acts were sent by Wamaharius to Ceraunius Archbishop of Paris, who held<br />

the see about a.d. 615 [Gallia Christiana vii. p. 25). It is not clear whether<br />

Warnaharius was himself the author of the work ;<br />

but it cannot have been much<br />

older. See above, p. 447, where Bede Hist. Abb. § 16 should be added to the list of<br />

references illustrating the history of the 'TergeminL'<br />

30.<br />

Maximus the Confessor [f<br />

a.d. 662].<br />

{a) Prolog, in Op. S. Dionysii p. 1 7 (ed. Migne).<br />

y\.v'r)\}.oveoei Se jov ' ApeLonayiTov kol Alouv(tlo

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