The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.

CHAP. XIV. Concerning * 1.1 Hunericus King of the Vandalls, and concerning those Christians whose tongues were cut out by him.

THe same Procopius, in his Book wherein he has related the Affairs of the Vandalls, gives a Narrative of † 1.2 strange things, and which de∣serve for ever to be kept in memory by men; which matters I come now to relate. Hunericus who succeded Gisericus in the Kingdom, in re∣gard he embraced [the Tenets] of Arius, be∣haved himself most barbarously towards those Christians in Africa; forcing them who asserted the Orthodox Opinions to [retract and] turn to the Opinion of the Arians. And if any re∣fused to obey his Commands, he destroyed them by fire, and infinite other sorts of death. But he ordered the tongues of some of them to be cut out. Procopius affirms, that he him∣self

a 1.3 saw these persons when they were at Con∣stantinople, to which City they had fled; and that he conferred with them [and heard them] speak in such a manner as if they had suffered no such thing: and [he says,] that their tongues indeed were cut out from the very root: but, that they had an articulate voice, and spake di∣stinctly: [which thing was] a wonder new and unusuall. The Constitution of * 1.4 Justinian mentions these persons also. Two of whom Lapsed, as the same Procopius relates. For in regard they would † 1.5 con∣verse with women, they were deprived of their voice, and the grace of Martyrdom continued not any longer with them.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Or, Ono∣richus.
• † 1.2

  Or, The Greatest.
• a 1.3

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. It must be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as others before us have alrea∣dy obs••r∣ved. Fur∣ther, con∣cerning these Afri∣can Con∣fessours (whose tongues Huncricus King of the Van∣dalls had commanded to be cut out, and who afterwards desisted not from spea∣king though their tongues were cut out,) Marcellinus Comes speaks in his Chronicon, at the Consulate of Theodoricus and Venantius; where he also attests that some of them were seen by him. Victor Thuno∣nensis records the same in his Chronicon, at Zeno Augustus's third Con∣sulate. And Victor Vitensis in his book De Persecutione Vandalorum; and lastly the Emperour Justinian in his First Law de Officio Praefecti Praetorio Africae. Which Constitution of Justinian's our Evagrius quotes a little lower in this chapter; although in the Greek Text the name of Justinus is erroneously written instead of Justinianus. See more in Baronius, at the year of Christ 484. Vales.
• * 1.4

  In the Greek Text here, and in Robert Stephens's Edit. 'tis Justinus: See note (a) in this chapter.
• † 1.5

  Or, Have to do with.