Tarasius and John

ON SS. TARASIUS AND JOHN,

MARTYRS AMONG THE GREEKS.

From the printed Menaia.

Tarasius, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

John, Martyr among the Greeks (S.)

G. H.

After S. Lycarion, these are subjoined in the Menaia of the Greeks: Τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ οἱ ἅγιοι Μάρτυρες Ταράσιος καὶ Ἰωάννης, ξίφει τελειοῦνται. "On the same day the holy Martyrs Tarasius and John are consummated by the sword": and these verses are added, with allusion to the name of Tarasius, as if taken ἀπὸ τοῦ ταράσσω, "I disturb, I terrify."

Ἰωάννην τέμνουσι σὺν Ταρασίῳ, Οὐ πρὸς τὸ τέμνον ἐνταραχθέντας ζίφος

"With the sword they cut John with Tarasius, At the point of the iron with mind disturbed nothing."

The same killed by sword report the Menaia Mss. found by us at Dijon with our Peter Francis Chifflet, as also the same have been inserted in βίοις Ἁγίων by Maximus Bishop of Cythera.