ON ST. ARTOS, MARTYR,
AT ALEXANDRIA.
From the Hieronymian Martyrologies.
CommentaryArtos, Martyr, at Alexandria (S.)
J. B. S.
Florentinius on this day confesses his codices to be mutilated and somewhat various from other manuscripts, rightly subjoining below that in other codices too blemishes are found. But since, on his own testimony again, in assigning the places of the Martyrs the most ancient—namely the Epternach codex—is accurate, from it we take the first Martyr, St. Artos, not however without some dread, lest he be the very same who on the preceding day was recorded under the name of Arpos, and ascribed to Alexandria. The name the Lucca codices render otherwise, when they write: At Alexandria, of Aritho, adding companions to him, whom the already-mentioned Epternach better assigns to Syria, as will appear a little more clearly below. The Blume codex brought a more deformed name, Arithofus; nor more rightly the lesser Hieronymian Martyrologies, among which the Augsburg reads Ariotus, the Labbe Artolus, the Barberini Arthotus, in which he is joined also with companions, now with Zoticus alone, now with several, whereas it is much more probable, even in Florentinius's opinion, that St. Artos alone belongs to Alexandria, but the rest to Syria, as will have to be examined in the following class.