Note 45 — Chapter XXII
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Kip, p. 88—from Maitland, p. 146. Sometimes the ardour for martyrdom rose into a passion. Eusebius says (Hist. Eccles., viii., 6) that in Nicomedia "Men and women with a certain divine and inexpressible alacrity rushed into the fire."
Inscripta Christo pagina immortalis est, Excepit adstans angelus coram Deo. Et quæ locutus martyr, et quæ pertulit: Nec verbum solum disserentis condidit, Omnis notata est sanguinis dimensio, Quæ vis doloris, quive segmenti modus: Guttam cruoris ille nullam perdidit. Peristeph.