ON THE HOLY ANTIOCHENE MARTYRS LEOCUS OR LEUCUS, TAXIS, NESTOR, AEQUINUS, AND ITALICUS.
CommentaryLeocus, or Leucus, Martyr at Antioch (St.)
Taxis, Martyr at Antioch (St.)
Nestor, Martyr at Antioch (St.)
Aequinus, Martyr at Antioch (St.)
Italicus, Martyr at Antioch (St.)
[1] The Martyrology of St. Jerome printed at Paris establishes this as the second class of Martyrs in these words: At Antioch, of Leucus, Satyrus, Taxis, Nestor, Aequinus, Saturninus, Revocatus, Secundolus, Italicus, Jocundus. In the Blume and Lucca copies, in place of Leucus and Secundolus is written Leocus and Secundolus, and Jocundus is omitted: with him also omitted, this is read in our very ancient Codex: At Antioch, of Leocis, Taxis, Nestor, Aequinus, Satyrus, Saturninus, Revocatus, Secundolus, Italicus. But since in these four codices there immediately follows: In Mauretania, in the city of the Turbitani, the passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas, we have concluded that SS. Saturus, Saturninus, Revocatus, and Secundolus, just as in the Acts they are joined as companions in the martyrdom of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas, so here also they should be joined, having been separated only by a certain transposition, and some of them repeated earlier with Jocundus: of him also, burned alive in Africa
with others, we treated above. Notker has this: At Antioch, of Leucus, Satyrus, and Nestor. He had treated immediately before of SS. Perpetua, Felicitas, and their companions, among whom he had omitted Saturus, here transferred. The Aachen manuscript relates: At Antioch, of Leocis, Satyrus, Taxis, Nestor, Aequinus, Secundolus. The Reichenau manuscript: At Antioch, of Leocis, Aequina. But with no place indicated, the name Leocis is in the Augsburg manuscript of St. Ulrich, and Leucus in the Paris manuscript of Labbe. Hermann Greuen in his Supplement to Usuard: At Antioch, of Eocus, Satyrus, Saturnus, and others. But in place of Saturnus, Saturninus is commonly read, whom above we listed with Saturus among the Africans. If however others judge them to be different from those, they may number them with these other three. Moreover he who is here written Eocus, is to others Leocus or Leucus. So in the Reichenau manuscript Equina, in the rest Equinus. Another scruple remains whether he who was listed above as Artaxius or Artaxis is here called Taxis, and therefore should be omitted from the heading. But with this caveat noted, we also include him. In place of Italicus, the Labbe manuscript has Tadicus.