ON ST. VICTOR MARTYR AND PERHAPS SILVANUS
IN THE THEBAID
From the Hieronymian Martyrologies.
CommentaryVictor, Martyr in the Thebaid (S.)
Silvanus, in the Thebaid.
J. B. S.
To this holy Victor I have added as companion Silvanus, under an appended particle, because he is joined in the Corbie codex alone: In the Thebaid, the birthday of St. Victor, of Silvanus. From the contracted codices there is no help: the Rheinau writes Victori, the Reichenau Victuri, Rabanus Victuris. The manuscript Florarium of the Saints, I know not whence it drew what it writes, Of Victor, Felician, Alexander, and other martyrs, unless it wrongly drew back St. Victor of Marseilles from the little list of the following day. Nor do I grasp any more what the Lübeck-Cologne editions and Greven mean, from whom Maurolycus had his own, when they write: In the Thebaid, of Victor the confessor: by which certainly Florentinius ought not to have been deterred from placing him in some manner by his own right in the class of martyrs: whence I do not see why he is to be removed, until more pressing arguments be adduced by which I may be driven to it: for the authority of the Ado of St. Lawrence at Liège, where no mark is appended, is of no greater weight than in the more ancient Usuardine codex of Centula.