{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2040.tlg035.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg035.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg035.local001","title":"In quadraginta martyres Sebastenses","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"BASILIUS Caesariensis Theol.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2040-basilius-caesariensis/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"In quadraginta martyres Sebastenses, MPG 31: 508–525. Cod: 2,700: Encom., Hagiogr., Homilet.","citationShort":"In quadraginta martyres Sebastenses, MPG 31: 508–525."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrologia_Graeca_Vol._031.pdf","sourceLinkType":"facsimile","sourceRights":"Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0","citation":"In quadraginta martyres Sebastenses. In quadraginta martyres Sebastenses, MPG 31: 508–525.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg035.local001","excerpt":"τοῦ κοινοῦ Σωτῆρος ἕκαστος ἑαυτὸν ἀνηγόρευον. Καὶ τοῦτο ἐποίουν ἅπαντες, τῷ προλαβόντι ἑαυτὸν συν- άπτων ὁ ἐφεξῆς. Ὥστε ἐγένετο πάντων προσηγορία μία· οὐκέτι γὰρ ὁ δεῖνα, ἢ ὁ δεῖνα, ἀλλὰ Χριστιανοὶ πάντες ἀνεκηρύττοντο. Τί οὖν ὁ κρατῶν τότε; Δεινὸς γὰρ ἦν καὶ ποικίλος, τὰ μὲν θωπείαις ὑπελ- θεῖν, τὰ δὲ ἀπειλαῖς παρατρέψαι. Πρῶτον μὲν αὐτοὺς κατεγοήτευε ταῖς θωπείαις, τὸν τόνον τῆς εὐσεβείας παραλύειν πειρώμενος. Μὴ προδῶτε ὑμῶν τὴν νεότητα· μηδὲ θάνατον ἄωρον τῆς ἡδείας ταύτης ζωῆς διαμείψητε. Ἄτοπον γὰρ τοὺς ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις ἀριστεύειν συνειθισμένους τὸν τῶν κακούργων θάνα- τον ἀποθνήσκειν. Πρὸς τούτοις χρήματα ὑπισχνεῖτο. Τὰ δὲ ἐδίδου, τιμὰς ἐκ βασιλέως, καὶ ἀξιωμάτων διανομὰς, καὶ μυρίαις αὐτοὺς ἐπινοίαις κατεστρα- τήγει, Ὡς δὲ οὐκ ἐνεδίδοσαν πρὸς τὴν πεῖραν ταύ- την, ἐπὶ τὸ ἕτερον εἶδος τῆς μηχανῆς μετῄει. Πληγὰς αὐτοῖς, καὶ θανάτους, καὶ κολάσεων ἀνηκέστων πεῖ- ραν ἐπανετείνετο.…","divisions":[{"label":"31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg035.local001/#tlg2040-tlg035-local001-31"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg035.local001/#tlg2040-tlg035-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg035.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2040.tlg035.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040/tlg035/local001.json.gz"}}