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574 EPISTLE OF S. POLYCARP.
35.
Florus-Beda [c. a.d. 870].
Martyrologium ed. Bolland. (see Patrol. Lat. xciv. p. 813, etc., ed.
Migne).
xvi Kal. Febr. [Jan. 17] Et apud Lingones natale geminorum
Pseusippi, Elasippi, et Melasippi, etc.
[The connexion with Benignus and through him with Polycarp is
some Mss, but appears to have been no part of this Martyrology,
hands of Floras.]
xiv Kal. Febr. [Jan. 19] Vacat.
[The martyrdom of Germanicus is added in some mss.]
as it
added in
left the
vii Kal. Febr. [Jan. 26] Natale S. Polycarpi, episcopi Smyrnae,
qui sub Marco Antonino et Lucio Aurelio Commodo, sedente
Smyrnae proconsule, conjurante in eum omni populo, igni traditus
est.
[Some MSS add particulars from the Letter of the Smyrnseans, including
the incident of the dove.]
Kal. Febr. [Feb. i].
[No mention of Pionius in the original Florus-Bede, though
some MSS.]
added in
vii Kal. Mart. [Feb. 23] Vacat.
[Some MSS add 'in Asia Polycarpi episcopi cum aliis duodeclm ' others
;
'
S. Polycarpi presbyteri et confessoris ', i.e. the Roman Polycarp.]
Kal. Nov. [Nov. i]
Et in castro Diveon natale S. Benigni presbyteri,
qui cum Andochio compresbytero et Tyrso diacono missus
est a 8. episcopo Polycarpo ab Oriente Galliam tempore Aureliani...
Collum ejus vecte ferreo tundi ac lancea forari jubetur.
Quo facto columba nivea de carcere Christianis aspicientibus
ad caelos ascendit, et odor suavissimus quasi paradisi secutus
est
etc.
xiv Kal. Jan. [Dec. 19] Vacat.
[But some mss have 'In Nicaea civitate Bithyniae SS.Zosimi, Pauli, etc.']
The form of the Martyrology from which these extracts are taken is probably as
it left the hands of Florus. In the Bollandist Acta Sanctoi'iim it is given as Bede's
original work, prior to the additions of Florus ;
but Sollier has shown that this cannot
be the case.