ON SAINT POLIOCHUS MARTYR AT CAESAREA IN CAPPADOCIA.
From the same Martyrology of S. Jerome.
CommentaryPoliochus, Martyr at Caesarea in Cappadocia (S.)
G. H.
We proceed with the four ancient copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology in which it is thus expressed: At Caesarea of Cappadocia the birthday of S. Poliochus. But in the Lucca MS. is read Poliocli, and in the Reichenau MS. Epoliochi, and the palaestra of martyrdom being omitted in the Paris MS.
of Labbe Palliaci: but in the Augsburg MS. of S. Udalric Politti, and in the Hibernian Tamlacht Pullioli. In this diversity of writing the name we follow the copies of the Hieronymian Martyrology, as more ancient and consonant among themselves: we suspect nevertheless here also that it befell the Latin writers, not enough versed in Greek names, that Poliochus crept in for Polyeuctus; just as at the XXI Martyrs of Caesarea the Standard-bearer Polyeuctus, in several copies Polioctus is found. More things perhaps and surer will time clear out.