ON STS. PAMPHILUS AND CAPITO, MARTYRS.
Their cult from the Greek Calendars.
Pamphilus, Martyr, also among the Greeks (S.)
Capito, Martyr, also among the Greeks (S.)
J. P.
These two Martyrs are supplied to us by the great printed Menæa of the Greeks, and by the Menology which Cardinal Sirleto rendered into Latin. The latter announces them thus: On the same day (XII of August) the holy martyrs Pamphilus and Capito suffered martyrdom for Christ. But the former record them at the same day, and express the kind of martyrdom, which they are there read to have consummated by the sword. The verses with which the said Menæa and the Supplement presently to be cited attend their triumph sound thus in Latin from the Greek:
These who lie fallen on the earth and befouled with gore, Pamphilus and Capito, went to meet the sword.
Nor have I more at hand to add to these; observe, however, that after our manuscript Sirmond-Chifflet supplement to the printed Menæa had given them at the XIII of this month and announced them as slain with the sword, it adds: "And their assembly is celebrated in the martyrium of holy Euphemia." That is: But their solemnity is celebrated in the sacred building of St. Euphemia. But which of the various buildings of the same name, which Du Cange notes in book 4 of Christian Constantinople, pages 145 and 146, is here understood, I gather from the said supplement, which from Sirmond's copy adds "in the buildings of Olybrius"; concerning which building, called "of Olybrius," the same author treats at page 146. For the rest, in our Greek transcripts from the Ambrosian library I find these Martyrs also noted at the day XIII of August.