Diodorus

ON SAINT DIODORUS,

MARTYR OF EMESA IN PHOENICIA.

From the Synaxarion Ms. of Divion.

Diodorus, Martyr of Emesa in Phoenicia.

G. H.

Emesa or Emisa, a city of Phoenicia

at Mount Lebanon, brought forth for us,

on the sixth day of February,

distinguished Martyrs SS. Silvanus

the Bishop, Lucas the Deacon,

Mucius or Mocius

the Lector, under Galerius Maximian, in the year CCCXII

suffering, & inscribed in the Roman Martyrology. To them on the same

day we added S. Julianus the Physician, unknown to

the Roman Fasti, but in the Menaea of the Greeks honored with an illustrious encomium

. In the same Emesa flourished S. Diodorus

ὁ ἐξ Ἐμέσης, σταυρωθεὶς τελειοῦται; who originating from Emesa

& fixed to the cross ended his life; as have at

this XIII day the Menaea Ms. by Petrus Franciscus

Chifletius in the College of Divion of the Society of Jesus

found by us, where this distich is added to the name:

Ἀνῆλθε Διόδωρος εἰς σταυροῦ ξύλον, Τιμῶν

Ἰησοῦν, οὗ πάθος σταυροῦ ξύλον.

Diodorus joyful mounts the wood of the cross,

That he may honor Christ dead on the wood of the cross.

ON THE MANY HOLY MARTYRS,

HONORED AMONG THE GREEKS.

From the same Synaxarion Ms.

Most holy Martyrs, honored among the Greeks (SS.)

G. H.

In the same Chifletian Menaea

Mss. is found a great multitude

of Martyrs at this same day

XIII June, with these words: τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ, οἱ ἅγιοι μυρίοι Μάρτυρες ξίφει τελειοῦνται. Then this

distich is read.

Νικᾷ πεσοῦσα Μυρίας διὰ ξίφους· Πίπτουσα καὶ γὰρ ἡ Θεοῦ νικᾷ φάλαγξ.

There is indeed properly μυρίας a number containing ten

thousand, but often it is also taken for an innumerable multitude,

as also the name Μυρίοι, especially in the plural

number. So I have proposed in the title many Martyrs on this day,

whom struck by the sword that Synaxarion indicates:

& it is left free to the reader, to apply the subjoined

distich, either to the definite number of ten thousand,

or to an indefinite multitude of many. Whatever the case, I render it

thus in Latin:

Falling through the sword the Myriad of Martyrs conquers:

For by falling, the soldiers of God conquer.