Contigitquö f urfus aflîftere eum mihi fe-
cundum quietem , qui antea adhuc ap-
paruerat , & dicebat ad me : Quid eft »
Ephræm ? interrögafti viros illös, quos
reperifti in carcere ? Atque ego ad ilium
: Immo vero Demine, retulique ei
cun&a quæ à viris illis mihi di<5ta—»
erant . Et ipfe ad me : Cernis ju-
ftum judicium Dei ? Ut autem cogno-
jfcas qui tres illi fint , qui tecum hoffte
inclufi funt carceribus : Duo ex
illis funt , qui falfo fororem propriam
fornicationis accufaverant , eamque fic
paterna fua hæreditate fpoliaverant ,
ficut & tibi recenfuerunt . Alius vero
eft , qui hominem præcipitavit in flu-
men 9 ubi etiam interiit, uti ab eodem
tibi relatum eft : & hæc dicens , • à me
receflit . Mane autem jam fadlo , vocä-
tis ad me* tribus illis viris , qui eodem
mecum detinebantur carcere , ro-
A «fEOTACdTlIÎA* - O' j'è ETSPOS 6ÇIV O T «S0ÇO.I
gavi eos , ut revera mihi cauflam edi-
cerent , ob quam in carcerem iftum con-
jefti eflent . Et duo fratres ad me : Cre-
de Domine frater, nos ob noftra deti-
neri peccata ; & alter quafi cædem fe-
ce rit, alter quafi adulterium commiferit ;
verum innocentes ambo fumus . Tertius
autem ; & ego , inquit , caufla pecca-
torum meorum ob cædem patratam hic
detineor . Atque ego ad illos : Verene
homicidiorum rei eftis , aut falfo accu-
famini ? Et ilii ad me : Omnino , domine
frater , ob noftra peccata : fed in eo
reperimur innocentes, cujus accufati fumus
. Ego vero cupiens certior fieri , num
Vera eflent, quæ dixerat ille , qui in—»
fomniis apparuerat, dixi : Eratres , num
alia quæpiam à vobis prius commifla erant
crimina , ut jufto judicio ad extremum
in graves hafce accufationes incideritis ?
Duo autem fratres dixerunt: Crede frater
: Soror nobis unica eft vidua , pia—»
admodum ac Deum timens , quam cum
paterna cuperemus hæreditate fpoliare ,
falfo adulterii criminis earn acculavimus :
fubornaveramus autem & falfum teftem
adverfus fororem noftram , & fic ipfam
hæreditate privavimus . Alius vero : &
ego , inquit , cum alio quodam flumen
præteribam; & dum pon tem tranfiremus,
contentione inter nos oborta, è fublimi
pontis eum præcipitavi in flumen , &
periit. Ego autem cun«fta ipfis quæ mihi
accideraht , eharrabam ; & quæ de-»
duobus viris in carcere repertis cogno-
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tortoribus in carcerem , catenifque fer-
reis collo noftro impofitis , traxerunt
nos per medium civitatis, ut nos judi-
ci fifterent. Tota autem civitas eo con-
fluxit ad ipeeftaculi neceftitatem . Unde-»
judex mandavit duos illos fratres nuda-
tos adduci in medium; at liftores cum
ftionem adduxerunt utrumque noftrum
cor am illis , qui jam torturæ fubjicie-
bantur , ftatuentes . Ego vero ejufmodi
cernens horrorem , flebam . Et miniftri
ad me : Crede puer, dicebant, quamvis
iftud alia vice evaferis illæfus ; modo non
fic evadere poteris, fed tormenta ifta—»
quæ vides, hodie experiri cogeris . Atque
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d Tom. III. Eboa-
Julfu autem judicis, ad gyrum rotæ ap-
penfi fuerunt duo fratres : quitus per
complures horas excruciatis -, tandem
etiam fraudem atque injuriam quam pro-
priæ forori intulerant , confefli funt, fe-
que ambos adulterii ac homicidii reos
efle. Judex autem fententiam adverfum
eos tulit , ut amputata manu eorum
dextera , adhuc in fiircam adigerentur .
Atque ab his. accepta fententia, mandavit
judex & alium quæftionibus fub-
jici ; quo nudo addutfto, eum ad rotam
appendi & torqueri juflit, eoque aliquan-
diu fic appenfo , acriterque extorto ,
etiam homicidium eft conteflus , quod
recens patrarat ; ac quomodo alium ho-
minem in flumen præcipitaflet, ubi periit
. At judex adverfus eum fenten*
tiam pronunciavit > ut ambabus ampu-
tatis illi manibus , poneretur in furca :
qui dum fententiam accepiflet, dixit judex
: Exuentes juvenem , producite &
eum in medium . Miniftri autem detra-
tftis mihi veftibus, laceris me pannis in-
duerunt , & fic me nudum ad judicem
adduxerunt. Ego autem amare flebam,&
Deum invocabam, dicens : Domine om-
nipotens , falva me ex ifta neceflitate ,
ut digne fieri queam monachus, & tibi
S infer