It seems tohave been before these last that Dacian put to death eighteen martyrs atSaragossa, who are mention Paul and Thirty-six Companions in Egypt, Martyrs. The martyr was a Persian, son of aMagian, instructed in the sciences of that sect, and a young soldier inthe Persian troops. Libaniuspronounced the young orator happy, as were also the emperors, he said, who reigned at a time when the world was possessed of so great atreasure.
Dom Rivet, Hist. Sick dismay flooded him as he imagined the altercation, the shame, the wounded friendship and shattered trust that must follow this discovery—he almost turned away. de la France, T. (COMMONLY, IN AUVERGNE, BONET; AT PARIS, BONT.
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