(3) The Grid-iron he made the Altar, whereupon blessed Laurence offered his body in sacrifice; the Stewes the Temple, wherein Theodora the vnspotted Virgin worshipped her Christ; the comfortlesse De∣serts, the refuge of aged Chaeremon, Bishop of Nilus; and the Caue, the Sanctuarte of the seuen Souldiers, fa∣buled by Nicephorus for seuen Sleepers: and so barba∣rous was he that way, that he put to Martyrdome ma∣ny children, as Vincentius, citing Hugo, affirmeth. Fabianus and Cornelius, both reuerend Bishops of Rome, hee slew; Alexander, Bishop of Ierusalem, imprisoned to death; and Great Origen, after he had scourged him at an Iron-stake, his feet hee lockt in the Stocks foure paces asunder, where he so continued certaine daies, inuenting such tortures and strange temptations a∣gainst the guiltlesse Christians, as are most admirable to heare. But long hee raged not, ere God in his iu∣stice tooke reuenge, and brake him to peeces as a Potters Vessell.
(4) For the Gothes that had inuaded Mysia and Thracia, continuing their Irruptions into the border∣ing Prouinces, drew him into an Expedition for those parts, where being betraied by Trebonianus Gallus his owne Captaine, he saw his two sonnes, Decius and Hostilianus, (whom he had admitted in fellowship of Empire with him, and whose monies wee haue with his expressed) slaine before his face; and himselfe to intombe his body, as a last refuge, in a deepe whirle∣poole; wherein it was so swallowed vp, as it could neuer be after seene; hauing no other honour of Bu∣riall, nor place of remembrance where his bones should rest. And according to his Death, so was his Descent: for neither hath he Father, Mother, nor Wife mentioned (for ought I know) by any Writer, (for of Salustia Barbia Orbiana, it is doubtfull whether to him or his sonne Hostilian she were wedded) nor his Acts so exactly registred, as were those of the preceding Emperours, his sinnes so deseruing it, and God in his reuenge so punishing it.
(5) Aurelius Victor and Eutropius say, that hee raigned two yeeres and odde moneths: but Eusebius affirmeth his raigne, not fully two yeeres: most hold him to haue died at the age of fifty, and in the yeere of Christ, two hundred fifty two.