Note 1 — Early Poems (continued 3)

For this incident cf. Acta, v., 317: “Petit aliquando ab aliquo ad se invisente funem, acceptumque circa corpus convolvit constringitque tam arete ut, exesâ carne, quæ istuc mollis admodum ac tenera est, nudæ costæ exstarent”. The same is told also of the younger Stylites, where the incident of concealing the torture is added, Acta, i., 265.