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On ðam gefyrn gewitenan ðære mycelan ehtnysse timan, þa ða hæðenan menn
Cristendomes leoman mid ealle adwæscan woldon and ælcne myne ofer eorðan
adylgian, and þa ða eadigan martyras for his naman mænigfealde earfeðnyssa
ðafedon, ða Decius se þweora heold rice ofer eall Romana rice and him for ðissere
worulde wel on hand eode, þæt he Godes þa gecorenan witnode and hi on yrmðum
getintregode and hi buton gewande getucude eall swa he wolde, ða gelamp hit æt
sumum cyrre þæt he ferde into anre byrig þe man Constantinopolim nemneð, seo
wæs heofodburh on Greclande, and of ðære he for into Cartagine and ðanon into
Efese.
[In the long-ago time of the great persecution, when the heathen people wished to
extinguish entirely the radiance of Christianity and to blot out every memory of it
over the earth, and when the blessed martyrs endured numerous hardships in its
name, while the depraved Decius held sway over all the empire of the Romans and
was successful in worldly matters, so that he tortured the chosen ones of God and
tormented them with miseries and without hesitation ill-treated them just as he
wished, it happened then on a particular occasion that he traveled to a city called
Constantinople, which was the capital city of Greece, and from there he went to
Carthage and from there to Ephesus.] (pp. 588–589)
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