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IGNATIUS THE MARTYR. 43
bones'. So the younger brother undid the work of the elder. Juhan
commanded the Christians to remove from Apollo's sanctuary the
loathsome coffin which Gallus had deposited there ^ They did so :
but they managed to render their compliance more offensive to the
emperor than their refusal could have been. Men, women, and children,
in crowds joined the festive procession which accompanied the
holy reliques to their resting-place within the city. Along the whole
route— the Daphnsean sanctuary was four or five miles distant from the
city^—they
sung the psalm of defiance, 'Confounded be all they that
worship graven images.' The emperor was furious at these demonstrations.
Christians were apprehended and put to the torture*; but
nothing was gained by this severity. He was advised that coercion only
aggravated the evil which he sought to remove. But a still heavier
blow awaited the god of the Daphntean grove. Shortly after the removal
of the martyr's bones, a fire broke out in the shrine ^ The
p.
says,
to be an exaggeration.
^
(xxii.
1
temps que Ton portoit dans la ville la
^
Julian in Cyrill. c. ^
One of the chief sufferers, Theodorus,
yulian. 335
(Spanheim) and elsewhere.
Ammianus
was afterwards known to
Rufinus
2) says nothing (x. 36), who questioned him about the
about Babylas, but represents it as a incident; see also Socrates {If. E. iii. 19),
general purgation by the removal of all who mentions this interview with Rufinus.
the bodies buried in the neighbourhood, It is alluded to also by Sozom. v. 20,
'st.itim circumhumata corpora statuit exinde
Theodt. //. E. iii.
7, but they speak of
transferri eo ritu quo Athenienses certain persons ' and do not mention
'
insulam purgaverant Delon.' Christian Rufinus by name. Gibbon seems to
writers however, one and all, state that confuse this young man Theodorus the
the emperor directed the removal of the
remains of Babylas, and betray no knowledge
confessor with Theodoretus the presbyter
and martyr, who was put to death about
of a general order; Chrysostom (p. this time at Antioch by the Count Julianus
562) says distinctly that this one body the uncle of the emperor (Sozom. v. 8,
alone was removed (5id rh /xTjd^va rCiv Ruinart's Act. Mart. Sine. p. 605 sq),
dWwv veKpQv, aXXa fiovop tov fiaprvpa. for he speaks in his text of ' a presbyter
fj.iTaKivTjOrji'ai cKeWev; comp. also p. 534); of the name of Theodoret' and in his
and so too Theodoret {If. E. iii. 6): and notes of ' the passion of S. Theodore in
their account is borne out by the language the Acta Sincera of Ruinart.' On the
of Julian himself {Misop. 361 kird he confusion of the names 'Theodorus,'
tov a/irtTnp.^a.ix.i.da. veKpov ttjs Aacpvrjs... 'Theodoretus,' see Tillemont H. E. vii.
Tots VTtkp tQv Xeixf/dvuv rjyavaKTriKocn tov P- 735-
v€Kpov) and of Libanius {Or. iii. p. 333
During the night
*
Gibbon
'
veKpov TLvos ivox^ovuTos), so that there which terminated this indiscreet procession,
can be no doubt as to the motive or the
the temple of Daphne was in
effect of the emperor's orders, whether flames,' and later writers have blindly
they were couched in general terms or followed him. He does not give any
not.
authority, but obviously he is copying
^ Rufinus says 'six,' but this appears Tillemont H. E. in. p. 407 'en mesme