Note 8 — Chapter IX
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Martyrum nulli, remanente vitâ, Contigit terris habitare nostris; Sola tu morti propriæ superstes, Vivis in orbe, Vivis ac pœnæ seriem retexis, Carnis et cæsæ spolium retentans, Tetra quam sulcos habeant amaros, Vulnera narras. Prudentius Περι Στεφανων. Hym. 4.
The poet goes on describing her torments with his usual love of live-anatomy ... I know not whether it be possible that any person should have survived them; but that some may be found wicked enough to inflict equal tortures under the pretext, and others conscientious enough to endure them for the sake of religion, has been too often proved, and in few places more frequently than in Zaragoza itself, from which city many an inquisitor has gone to keep company with Dacianus. St. Engracia is invoked in diseases of the heart and the liver, in consequence of the circumstances of her martyrdom.
Vidimus partem jecoris revulsam, Ungulis longe jacuisse pressis; Mors habet pallens aliquid tuorum, Te quoque vivâ.