CAP. XXIII.
The Martyrdome of Vlpianus and Aedesius.
THe same time of the yeare, and in maner on the selfe same dayes, in the citie of Tyrus, there* 1.1 was a yonge man by name Vlpianus, who after most bitter stripes and greuous lashes, was wrapped together with a dogge and a serpent in a greene oxe hyde, and caste into the deapth of the sea. And therefore I thought good to place him the next martyr in order of historie vnto Apphianus. Not long after, Aedesius, not onely brother in God, but also by birth and blood, naturall brother by the fathers side vnto Apphianus, suffred like brotherly, and in maner the selfe same torments with him: after infinite confessions of his faith: after long fettering and stocking: after sentence pronounced of the president, cōdemning him to the myne pitts & quarries in Palae∣stina: after his holy trade of life, led vnder the philosophicall habite, being farre more profounde in prophane literature, and better skilled in philosophie then his brother: at length hearinge the Iudge, giue sentence vpon the Christians in the citie of Alexandria and raging against them be∣yonde all reason, shamefully entreating, some times graue and sage, and sober men, some other times deliueringe chaste matrons, and consecrated virgins, to brothell houses, to the ende they should be beastly abused: he enterprised the selfe same thinge which his brother had done before.* 1.2 And because he could in no wise away with those horrible offences, he went boldly and courage∣ously vnto the Iudge, and told him to his face of the filthie and shamefull acts he had done both by worde and deede. for which bolde reprehension he suffred sundry bitter torments, with great con∣stancie and pacience. and last of all he was throwen into the sea, enioying the like ende with his brother. so farre of Aedesius. And these things as I sayd before ensued not long after.