ON SAINT AQUILA THE GOVERNOR, MARTYR, AMONG THE GREEKS.
CommentaryAquila the Governor, Martyr, among the Greeks (Saint)
[1] We follow the traces appearing in the printed Menaia, and present what is indicated in Greek. These things, therefore, are read: "On the same day, the holy Aquila the Governor completed the course of his life by the sword."
"O Aquila, you appeared as a spotless victim to your spotless Lord, when you fell, cut down by the sword."
The same Aquila is commemorated in Maximus Cytheraeus and in the manuscript Menaia of Chifflet and others, and he is always designated as eparchos, so that he was the Governor of some province, or certainly some Praetor or Prefect; but at what time or in what place, who could divine? Many bearing the name Aquila are also inscribed in the Latin and Greek calendars, but whether the same person is treated of elsewhere is uncertain.