Many Martyrs among the Greeks

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.