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Cyprianus, Epistolae II-XXI

Letter XXI

non solum hoc pro eis petere, sed et Statium et Severianum et omnes confessores qui inde huc a vobis venerunt, ad quos ipsae in portum descenderunt, et in urbem levaverunt, quod sexaginta quinque ministraverunt et usque in hodiernum in omnibus foverunt. Sunt enim penes illas omnes. Plus autem gravare cor illud sanctum tuum non debui, cum sciam te prona voluntate operari. Salutant te Macharius cnm sororibus suis Cornelia et Emerita, quae laetantur de confessione tua florida, sed et omnium fratrum, et Saturninus, qui et ipse luctatus est cum diabolo, qui et Christi nomen est fortiter confessus, qui et ibi in poena ungularum fortiter est confessus, qui et hoc nimis rogat et petit. Salutant te fratres tui Calphurnius et Maria et omnes sancti fratres. Nam et hoc scire debes, me et dominis meis fratribus tuis [litteras] scripsisse, quas peto illis eas legere digneris.

not only ask this for them, but also for Statius and Severianus and all the confessors who came here from you, from there, to whom they themselves went down to the harbour, and whom they brought up into the city, in that they ministered to sixty-five and have cherished them in all things up to this day. For they are all in their care. But I ought not to burden that holy heart of yours further, since I know that you act with a ready will. Macharius greets you, with his sisters Cornelia and Emerita, who rejoice at your flourishing confession, and indeed at that of all the brethren; and Saturninus, who himself also wrestled with the devil, who also bravely confessed the name of Christ, who also there under the torture of the claws bravely confessed, who also asks and begs this most earnestly. Your brothers Calphurnius and Maria and all the holy brethren greet you. For you ought to know this too, that I have also written [a letter] to my lords your brothers, which I ask that you deign to read to them.

EPISTOLA XXI.

Letter 21.

(Pamel., XXII. Rig., Baluz., Paris., XXI. Oxon., Lips., XXII.)

(Pamelius, 22; Rigault, Baluze, Paris, 21; Oxford, Leipzig, 22.)

LUCIANUS RESPONDET CELERINO.

Lucianus replies to Celerinus.

Argumentum. — Lucianus Celerini petitioni annuit.

Argument. Lucianus assents to the request of Celerinus.

I. Lucianus Celerino domino, si dignus fuero vocari, collega in Christo salutem. Accepi litteras tuas, domine frater dilectissime in quibus me tantum gravasti, ut propter tuam gravationem tanto gaudio pene exciderim, ut litteras quas et ego optabam

I. Lucianus, colleague in Christ, if I shall be worthy to be so called, to Celerinus, his lord, greeting. I received your letter, lord, most beloved brother, in which you so burdened me that because of your burdening I almost fell away from so great a joy, that the letter which I too was longing for

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Footnotes

LECTIONES VARIANTES (printed under page 135)

(a) ‹confessus› · call in col 279

Est confessus Oxon.

"Has confessed": Oxford edition.

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(b) ‹tuam gravationem› · call in col 279

Perpetua gravatione Impr.

"By constant burdening": printed editions.

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Litteras tuas quos Oxon. ex Vat.

"Your letter, which" (masculine quos): Oxford edition, from the Vatican MS.

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(d) ‹memorare› · call in col 280

Memorari Oxon. ex Vat.

"To be mentioned": Oxford edition, from the Vatican MS.

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(e) ‹diceres› · call in col 280

Dicis Impr.

"You say": printed editions.

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running head: 279 DIVI CYPRIANI
marginal letters: A non solum hoc pro eis petere; B debes, me et dominis meis; C beside the variant readings at the page foot (right column, f Ma...); D sui debere me in hoc loco sequi (Baluze notes)
old-edition numerals: 30 after ungularum (superior figure, taken as old-edition page number; unsure)
other: "cnm" (for cum, before sororibus) set as printed

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post tantum temporis legere, in quibus mei dignatus es memorare, beneficio tantae tuae humilitatis legere exultaverim, qui scribens mihi diceres. Si dignus fuero frater nominarii tuus, hominis qui apud pusilliores nomen Dei cum timore confessus sum. Nam tu, Deo volente, ipsum anguem majorem metatorem antichristi, non tantum confessus deterruisti vocibus illis et verbis deificis quibus scio quasi amatores fidei et zelotypi disciplinae Christi in qua te novi vivacitate versari te gaudeo, vicisti. Nunc, charissime, jam inter martyres deputande, voluisti nos litteris tuis gravare, in quibus significasti de sororibus nostris; pro quibus utinam fieri posset ut sine tanto scelere commisso memoriam faceremus! Non profecto tantis lacrymis incumberemus ut nunc.

to read after so long a time, in which you deigned to make mention of me, I rejoiced to read by the kindness of your so great humility, you who in writing to me said: If I shall be worthy to be named your brother, of a man such as I, who before lesser ones confessed the name of God with fear. For you, God willing, not only having confessed, terrified the greater serpent himself, the harbinger of Antichrist, with those utterances and divine words by which I know [you] as lovers of the faith and zealous for the discipline of Christ, in which I know you to be engaged with liveliness, I rejoice, you have conquered. Now, dearest, already to be reckoned among the martyrs, you have wished to burden us with your letter, in which you gave word concerning our sisters; for whom would that it could come about that we might make remembrance of them without so great a crime having been committed! We should surely not be bowed over such great tears as now.

II. Scire debuisti quid circa nos actum sit. Cum benedictus martyr Paulus adhuc in corpore esset, vocavit me, et dixit mihi: Luciane, coram Christo tibi dico ut, si quis post arcessitionem meam abs te pacem petierit, da in nomine meo; sed et omnes quos Dominus in tanta tribulatione arcessire dignatus est, universi litteras ex compacto universis pacem dimisimus. Vides ergo, frater, quoniam partim ejus quod mihi Paulus praecepit quam universis quod censuimus, ex quibus eramus in hac tribulatione, cum jussi sumus secundum praeceptum imperatoris fame et siti necari, et reclusi sumus in duabus cellis,

II. You ought to know what has been done concerning us. When the blessed martyr Paul was still in the body, he called me and said to me: Lucian, before Christ I tell you that, if anyone after my summoning shall seek peace from you, grant it in my name; and moreover all of us whom the Lord has deigned to summon in so great a tribulation, all together, by agreement, have granted peace to all by letters. You see therefore, brother, that partly of what Paul enjoined on me, and partly what we all resolved, out of those of us who were in this tribulation, when we were ordered according to the emperor's command to be put to death by hunger and thirst, and were shut up in two cells,

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Footnotes

(f) ‹metatorem› · call in col 280

Majorem et atrociorem Vat.

"Greater and more savage": Vatican MS.

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(g) ‹deputande› · call in col 280

Deputandos Vat.

"To be assigned": Vatican MS.

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(h) ‹da› · call in col 280

Des Oxon.

"You should give": Oxford edition.

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(i) ‹cum jussi sumus› · call in col 280

Cum jussimus Impr.

"When we ordered": printed editions.

STEPH. BALUZII NOTAE (Baluze) ‹Sed et Statium› · col 279 Sed et Statium. Ita codex meus et Gratianopolitanus. Ita quoque constat habuisse vetera exemplaria Latinii. Sic etiam legendum esse censuerat Pamelius, cum antea scriptum esset statim. Vide notas ad epistolam liv.

But also Statius. So my manuscript and the Grenoble one. It is also established that Latinius's old copies had it so. So too Pamelius had judged it should be read, whereas before immediately had been written. See the notes on letter liv.

(Baluze) ‹Machario› · col 279 Machario. Satis scio scribendum fuisse Macario, si constaret Afros scripsisse uti Graeci scribebant. At cum invenirem hoc vocabulum in vetustis exemplaribus Cypriani scriptum cum aspiratione, scirem praeterea Afros et plerosque Latinos quaedam vocabula scripsisse diverse, ut patet in verbo catecuminus et in verbo acolytus, tum etiam in vocabulo Arrius, censui debere me in hoc loco sequi scripturam veterum exemplarium sancti Cypriani. Sic etiam scribit Franciscus Maria Florentinius in editione vetustissimi martyrologii, vi idus decembris: In Africa sanctorum Primi, Macharii, Justi. Et in epistola xxix sancti Augustini, in nova editione, scriptum est Machario, juxta fidem codicis Cisterciensis ex quo edita est.

Macharius. I know well that Macario should have been written, if it were established that the Africans wrote as the Greeks wrote. But since I found this word written with the aspirate in the old copies of Cyprian, and knew besides that the Africans and most Latins wrote certain words differently, as is plain in the word catecuminus and in the word acolytus, and also in the name Arrius, I judged that in this place I ought to follow the spelling of the old copies of St Cyprian. So too Francesco Maria Fiorentini writes in his edition of the very ancient martyrology, on the sixth day before the Ides of December: In Africa, of Saints Primus, Macharius, Justus. And in St Augustine's letter xxix, in the new edition, Machario is written, following the authority of the Cîteaux manuscript from which it was edited.

(Baluze) ‹Epist. XXI› · col 279 Epist. xxi. — Duo tantum hujus epistolae vetera exemplaria habui, unum ex urbe Gratianopolitana, aliud ex bibliotheca mea. Angli unum laudant ex Vaticana, illud nimirum, ut opinor, quod notatum est numero 199 in bibliotheca Vaticana. Habuisse se eam in suis codicibus testatur Latinius, sed ita corruptam ut vix intelligi sententia ejus posset. Pamelius et Rigaltius fatentur se nullum vetus illius exemplar habuisse.

Letter XXI. — I had only two old copies of this letter, one from the city of Grenoble, the other from my own library. The English cite one from the Vatican, namely, I think, the one marked number 199 in the Vatican Library. Latinius testifies that he had it in his manuscripts, but so corrupt that its sense could hardly be understood. Pamelius and Rigault admit they had no old copy of it.

(Baluze) ‹I. — Anguem majorem› · cols 279–280 I. — Anguem majorem. Id est Decium imperatorem, quem execrabile animal vocat Lactantius in libro de Mortibus Persecutorum. Sic Prudentius in carmine de sancto Fructuoso episcopo Tarraconensi, Aemilianum praesidem vocat cruentum colubrum. Sic Hunericus, rex Vandalorum, vocatur veternosus anguis in historia passionis martyrum qui vi non. julii passi sunt apud Carthaginem sub ejus imperio. Et auctor vitae Gregorii Papae IX, apud Odoricum Rainaldum, an. 1238, § 72, Fridericum II imperatorem vocat tortuosum colubrum. Nabuchodonosor vocatur aquila grandis ab Hieronymo et Theodoreto, ut notat Fronto Ducaeus in annotationibus ad tomum primum operum sancti Joannis Chrysostomi. Ad Decium pertinent haec verba Cypriani de Celerino in Epistola xxxiv, pag. 47: Hic inter persecutionis initia cum ipso infestationis principe et auctore corgressus; et fortassis ea quae de hominis maligni, velut serpentis astutia venenata, ait in Epistola xlvi, pag. 60.

I. — The greater serpent. That is, the emperor Decius, whom Lactantius calls an accursed animal in the book On the Deaths of the Persecutors. So Prudentius, in the poem on St Fructuosus, bishop of Tarragona, calls the governor Aemilianus a bloody snake. So Huneric, king of the Vandals, is called a lethargic serpent in the history of the passion of the martyrs who suffered at Carthage under his rule on the sixth day before the Nones of July. And the author of the life of Pope Gregory IX, in Odorico Rinaldi, year 1238, § 72, calls the emperor Frederick II a twisting snake. Nebuchadnezzar is called a great eagle by Jerome and Theodoret, as Fronton du Duc notes in his annotations on the first volume of the works of St John Chrysostom. To Decius belong these words of Cyprian about Celerinus in Letter xxxiv, page 47: He, at the beginnings of the persecution, joined battle with the very prince and author of the assault; and perhaps what he says in Letter xlvi, page 60, about the poisoned cunning of a malignant man, like a serpent's.

(Baluze) ‹Metatorem antichristi› · col 280 Metatorem antichristi. Lucifer episcopus Calaritanus Constantium imperatorem Arrianum vocat praecursorem antichristi, quod idem est. Contra Lactantius, lib. iv, cap. 11, Christum vocat metatorem templi Dei, id est Ecclesiae. De metatoribus vide quae dicuntur infra ad Epistolam lxxxi.

The forerunner (quartermaster) of the antichrist. Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, calls the Arian emperor Constantius the precursor of the antichrist, which is the same thing. Lactantius, on the other hand, book iv, chapter 11, calls Christ the metator (the one who marks out) of the temple of God, that is, of the Church. On metatores see what is said below on Letter lxxxi.

(Baluze) ‹Te novi› · col 280 Te novi. Quamvis editio Morellii, ex qua aliae propagatae sunt, habeat tenoris, cum tamen veteres libri, etiam unus quem laudat Latinius, habeant te novi, hanc lectionem arbitratus sum esse retinendam, tum quia veterum librorum auctoritate nititur, tum quia videtur esse melior.

I knew you. Although Morel's edition, from which the others descend, has of the tenor, yet since the old books, including one that Latinius cites, have te novi, I judged this reading should be kept, both because it rests on the authority of the old books and because it seems the better.

(Baluze) ‹II. — Quoniam partim› · col 280 II. — Quoniam partim. Ita reposui secutus fidem libri mei veteris et Gratianopolitani. Vaticanus in editione Anglicana laudatus habet quoniam partem. Editiones, quod tam placuit.

II. — That partly. So I have restored, following the authority of my old book and of the Grenoble one. The Vatican manuscript cited in the English edition has that a part. The editions: which so pleased.

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running head: [cut off at left edge] …IVI CYPRIANI | 280
marginal letters: A post tantum temporis legere; B ut nunc.; C ‹f Majorem et atrociorem Vat. (in Lectiones variantes)›; D ‹principe et auctore congressus (in Baluzii notae)›
old-edition numerals: (none)
other: column begins and ends mid-sentence; text fragments at left edge belong to column 279 and are not set; Lectiones variantes (f–i) and Baluzii notae at page foot not set; "nominarii" set as printed (other editions read nominari); "quam universis" set as printed; Lucian's Latin is irregular and the English follows it literally; no editors' matter in the text block; Baluze note "corgressus" (for congressus) set as printed; superior figure 408 inside the Baluze note on Epist. XXI (after "suis") not set

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ita ut nos afficerent fame et siti. Sed et ignis ab opere pressurae nostrae tam intolerabilis erat quam nemo portare posset. Sed nunc ipsam claritatem sumus consecuti. Et ideo, frater charissime, saluta Numeriam et Candidam, quae secundum Pauli praeceptum et caeterorum martyrum, quorum nomina subjicio, Bassi in pejerario, Mappalici in quaestione, Fortunionis in carcere, Pauli a quaestione, Fortunatae, Victorini, Victoris, Herennii, Credulae, Herenae, Donati, Firmi, Venusti, Fructi, Juliae, Martialis et Aristonis, qui Deo volente in carcere fame necati sunt, quorum et nos socios futuros intra dies audietis. Jam enim ex quo iterato reclusi sumus sunt dies octo in die quo tibi litteras scripsi. Nam et ante dies octo per dies quinque medios modicum panis accepimus et aquam ad mensuram. Et ideo, frater, peto ut, sicut hic cum Dominus coeperit ipsi Ecclesiae pacem dare, secundum praeceptum Pauli et nostrum tractatum, exposita causa apud episcopum et facta exomologesi, habeant pacem, non tantum hae, sed et quas scis ad animum nostrum pertinere.

so that they afflicted us with hunger and thirst. But also the fire from the working of our affliction was so intolerable that no one could bear it. But now we have attained that very glory. And therefore, dearest brother, greet Numeria and Candida, who according to the precept of Paul and of the other martyrs, whose names I set down below, Bassus in the pejerarium, Mappalicus under interrogation, Fortunio in prison, Paul after interrogation, Fortunata, Victorinus, Victor, Herennius, Credula, Herena, Donatus, Firmus, Venustus, Fructus, Julia, Martialis and Aristo, who by the will of God were killed by hunger in prison, whose companions you will hear within days that we too are to be. For already, since we were shut in again, it is eight days to the day on which I wrote the letter to you. For also for the five days in the middle before the eight days we received a little bread and water by measure. And therefore, brother, I ask that, as here, when the Lord has begun to give peace to the Church itself, according to the precept of Paul and our resolution, once their case has been set out before the bishop and confession has been made, they may have peace, not only these, but also those whom you know to be close to our heart.

III. Salutant vos collegae mei universi, Vos, salutate confessores Domini qui ibi vobiscum sunt, quorum nomina significasti; inter quos et Saturninus cum comitibus suis, sed et collega meus, et Maris, Collecta et Emerita, Calphurnius et Maria, Sabina, Spesina, et sorores, Januaria, Dativa, Donata. Salutamus cum suis Saturum, Bassianum, et universum

III. All my colleagues greet you. Do you greet the confessors of the Lord who are there with you, whose names you have indicated; among whom also Saturninus with his companions, and also my colleague, and Maris, Collecta and Emerita, Calphurnius and Maria, Sabina, Spesina, and the sisters, Januaria, Dativa, Donata. We greet Saturus with his own, Bassianus, and the whole

Editors' notes and page, col. 281

Footnotes

LECTIONES VARIANTES (printed under page 136)

(a) ‹erat› · call in col 281

Ignis vapore; et pressura nostra intoler. erat Oxon.

"By the heat of fire; and our distress was unbearable": Oxford edition.

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(b) ‹ex quo› · call in col 281

Tam enim ut Oxon.

"For so that": Oxford edition.

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running head: 281 EPISTOLA XX (cut off at the right edge of the image)
marginal letters: A ita ut nos afficerent fame et siti; B nis accepimus et aquam ad mensuram; C beside the Lectiones variantes line at the page foot; D beside "recte monuerunt esse Maximi" in the editors' notes
old-edition numerals: 31 after universi,

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clerum, Uranium, Alexium, Quintianum, Colonicam, et universos quorum nomina non scripsi, quia jam lassus eram. Ideo ignoscere debent. Opto vos bene valere, Alexium et Getulicum et argentarios et sorores. Salutant vos sorores meae Januaria et Sophia, quas vobis commendo.

clergy, Uranius, Alexius, Quintianus, Colonica, and all those whose names I have not written, because I was by now weary. Therefore they ought to forgive me. I wish you to fare well, Alexius and Getulicus and the silversmiths and the sisters. My sisters Januaria and Sophia greet you, and I commend them to you.

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Footnotes

Robustus minus Impr.

"Robust (but) less": printed editions.

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(d) ‹vulgi auctorem› · call in col 282

Imperite jam se auctorem Ver.

"Unskilfully now (making) himself the leader": Verona MS.

STEPH. BALUZII NOTAE (Baluze) ‹Afficerent› · col 281 Afficerent. Ita editio Morelli et reliquae. Codex Latinii et meus, ut non afficiebat. Gratianopolitanus, ita quod non efficiebatur.

Affected. So Morel's edition and the rest. Latinius's manuscript and mine: so that it did not affect. The Grenoble one: so that it was not brought about.

(Baluze) ‹Bassi in pejerario› · col 281 Bassi in pejerario. Ita Morellius. Rigaltius conjecit legendum esse in petrario, id est in lapidicina. Codex Vaticanus et Latinius, in perario vel imperario, quod adjuvare potest conjecturam Rigaltii. Unus Bodleianus, pegrario. Meus, pignerario. Gratianopolitanus imperario, ut in codice Latinii. Angli posuerunt in contextu conjecturam Rigaltii. Maximus episcopus Taurinensis in homilia de non timendis hostibus carnalibus: Piraterium latine experimentum dici potest. Haec homilia olim exstabat in editionibus operum sancti Ambrosii. Sed monachi Benedictini recte monuerunt esse Maximi.

Of Bassus, in the pejerarium. So Morel. Rigault conjectured that in the petrarium, that is, in the quarry, should be read. The Vatican manuscript and Latinius: in perarium or imperarium, which can support Rigault's conjecture. One Bodleian: pegrarium. Mine: pignerarium. The Grenoble one: imperarium, as in Latinius's manuscript. The English put Rigault's conjecture in the text. Maximus, bishop of Turin, in the homily on not fearing fleshly enemies: Piraterium can be called in Latin "a trial". This homily once stood in the editions of the works of St Ambrose. But the Benedictine monks rightly pointed out that it is Maximus's.

(Baluze) ‹In quaestione› · col 281 In quaestione. Infra Epist. lxix, pag. 123, tot confessores quaestionati et torti, non ut veritas quaereretur, sed ut per tormenta quaestionis cogerentur ad relinquendam veritatem. Hinc quaestionarii in actis sanctorum Luciani et Marciani dicti quorum officium erat reos applicare ad quaestionem et tormentis exagitare. Iidem dicti carnifices, ut ostendit in suo glossario latino doctissimus amicus olim noster Carolus Dufresnius Cangius. Quaestionis autem tormenta cogebant interdum innocentes ad confitendum crimina de quibus accusabantur, uti notatum a nobis est in notis ad vitas Paparum Avenionensium, pag. 599.

Under interrogation. Below, Letter lxix, page 123: so many confessors interrogated and tortured, not that the truth might be sought, but that by the torments of interrogation they might be forced to abandon the truth. Hence in the acts of Saints Lucian and Marcian those are called quaestionarii whose office was to put the accused to the question and harass them with torments. The same were called executioners, as our very learned late friend Charles du Fresne du Cange shows in his Latin glossary. And the torments of interrogation sometimes forced the innocent to confess crimes of which they were accused, as we noted in the notes on the Lives of the Avignon Popes, page 599.

(Baluze) ‹Animum› · col 281 Animum. Codex Vaticanus et meus, tum etiam is qui fuit Latinii habent animam.

Mind. The Vatican manuscript and mine, and also the one that was Latinius's, have soul.

(Baluze) ‹III. — Comitibus› · cols 281–282 III. — Comitibus. Ita editio Morelliana. Angli maluerunt omnibus, testati se ita scriptum vidisse in codice Vaticano. Sic etiam codex Latinii. At Gratianopolitanus habet comitibus. Meus motibus, quod propius accedit ad vocem comitibus.

III. — Companions. So Morel's edition. The English preferred all, testifying that they saw it so written in the Vatican manuscript. So too Latinius's manuscript. But the Grenoble one has companions. Mine has movements, which comes closer to the word companions.

(Baluze) ‹Maris, Collecta› · col 282 Maris, Collecta. Haec lectio reperitur in editione Morellii, in veteri libro meo, et in Gratianopolitano. Pamelius mutavit ex ingenio, absque ullius veteris exemplaris auctoritate, et posuit, Macarius, Cornelia, quia videbat Macarii et aliorum decem martyrum festum celebrari sexto idus aprilis. Et tamen Maris nomen non est obscurum in historia ecclesiastica. Maris episcopus Chalcedonensis claruit aevo Juliani imperatoris. Alter Maris etiam episcopus Chalcedonensis interfuit concilio Chalcedonensi, Maris Dolichensis concilio Constantinopolitano primo. Nota est controversia de epistola Ibae episcopi Edesseni ad Marim Persam in concilio quinto, cujus etiam mentio facta est in Ephesino. Maris monachi meminit Theodoretus in capite 20 Historiae religiosae.

Maris, Collecta. This reading is found in Morel's edition, in my old book, and in the Grenoble one. Pamelius changed it by conjecture, without the authority of any old copy, and set Macarius, Cornelia, because he saw that the feast of Macarius and ten other martyrs was kept on the sixth day before the Ides of April. And yet the name Maris is not obscure in church history. Maris, bishop of Chalcedon, was prominent in the time of the emperor Julian. Another Maris, also bishop of Chalcedon, took part in the Council of Chalcedon; Maris of Doliche in the first Council of Constantinople. Well known is the controversy over the letter of Ibas, bishop of Edessa, to Maris the Persian at the fifth council, which was also mentioned at Ephesus. Theodoret mentions the monk Maris in chapter 20 of the Religious History.

(Baluze) ‹Epist. XXII› · col 282 Epist. xxii. — Hanc epistolam, quae primum excusa est in editione Manutiana, in nullo eorum veterum exemplarium quibus utor reperi quam in Fuxensi, in Gratianopolitano, in uno meo, et in eo quod servatur in monasterio Remensi sancti Dionysii. Angli unicum habuerunt ex bibliotheca Bodleiana. Pamelius eam invenerat in codice Anglicano Joannis Harrisii.

Letter XXII. — This letter, which was first printed in Manutius's edition, I found in none of the old copies I use except the Foix one, the Grenoble one, one of mine, and the one kept in the monastery of Saint-Denis at Reims. The English had a single one, from the Bodleian Library. Pamelius had found it in an English manuscript of John Harris.

(Baluze) ‹I. — Post factas› · col 282 I. — Post factas. Editio Morellii, codex meus, Gratianopolitanus et unus Bodleianus habent: Factis ad vos litteris.

I. — After ... sent. Morel's edition, my manuscript, the Grenoble one and one Bodleian have: A letter having been sent to you.

(Baluze) ‹Imperii jampridem› · col 282 Imperii jampridem. Vox jampridem deest in codice Remensi. In Fuxensi scriptum est imperitia sua pridem se. Quae lectio videtur convenire cum iis quae paulo ante dixit Cyprianus de Luciano, illum minus Dominica lectione fundatum fuisse. Vocatur autem (continues)

Of the ignorant [the lemma is printed Imperii, for the text's imperiti], long since. The word long since is missing in the Reims manuscript. In the Foix one is written by his ignorance some time ago himself. This reading seems to fit what Cyprian said a little before about Lucian, that he was less grounded in the Lord's reading. He is called, moreover, (continues)

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