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then peoples as spectators of your punishment, so many you now have as servants of your honor. We are in need of many good deeds; intercede for your homeland to the common king; for a martyr's homeland is the land of his suffering; and his fellow citizens and kinsmen, are those who have prepared him for burial and possess and honor him. We look on tribulations with suspicion, we expect dangers, not far off the accursed Scythians are travailing with war against us; as a soldier, fight for us; as a martyr, use your boldness on behalf of your fellow servants. Even if you have passed beyond this life, yet you know the passions and the needs of humanity; ask for peace, so that these festivals may not cease, so that a raving and lawless barbarian may not revel against our churches or altars, so that a profane man may not trample the holy things.

For we reckon to you the benefaction even for those things from which we were kept unharmed; and we ask for security for the future. If there is need of even greater entreaty, gather the choir of your brother martyrs, and with them all make supplication; may the prayers of many righteous men release the sins of peoples and nations; remind Peter, rouse Paul, likewise John the theologian and beloved disciple; so that they may have care for the Churches which they established, for which they wore chains, for which they endured dangers and deaths; may idolatry not raise its head against us, may heresies not sprout up like thorns in the vineyard, may the tares that arise not choke the wheat; may no rock be found among us lacking the richness of the true dew, and show the power of the word's fruitfulness to be rootless; but by the power of your intercession and of those with you, O wondrous one, and crop most glorious among the martyrs, may the commonwealth of the Christians be shown to endure to the end, in the rich and fruitful field of faith in Christ ever bearing the fruit of eternal life, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. With whom to the Father together with the Holy Spirit, be glory, might, honor, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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τότε λαοὺς τῆς τιμωρίας θεατὰς, τοσούτους νῦν τῆς τιμῆς ἔχεις ὑπηρέτας. Χρῄζομεν πολλῶν εὐεργεσιῶν· πρέσβευσον ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος πρὸς τὸν κοινὸν βασιλέα· πατρὶς γὰρ μάρτυρος, τοῦ πάθους ἡ χώρα· πολῖται δὲ καὶ συγγενεῖς, οἱ περιστείλαντες καὶ ἔχοντες καὶ τιμῶντες. Ὑφορώμεθα θλίψεις, προσδοκῶμεν κινδύνους, οὐ μακρὰν οἱ ἀλιτήριοι Σκῦθαι τὸν καθ' ἡμῶν ὠδίνοντες πόλεμον· ὡς στρατιώτης ὑπερμάχησον· ὡς μάρτυς ὑπὲρ τῶν ὁμοδούλων χρῆσαι τῇ παῤῥησίᾳ. Εἰ καὶ ὑπερέβης τὸν βίον, ἀλλ' οἶδας τὰ πάθη καὶ τὰς χρείας τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος· αἴτησον εἰρήνην, ἵνα αἱ πανηγύρεις αὗται μὴ λήξωσιν, ἵνα μὴ κωμάσῃ κατὰ ναῶν ἢ θυσιαστηρίων λυσσῶν καὶ ἄθεσμος βάρβαρος, ἵνα μὴ πατήσῃ τὰ ἅγια βέβηλος.

Ἡμεῖς γὰρ καὶ ὑπὲρ ὧν ἀπαθεῖς ἐφυλάχθημεν, σοὶ λογιζόμεθα τὴν εὐεργεσίαν· αἰτοῦμεν δὲ καὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος τὴν ἀσφάλειαν. Ἂν χρεία γένηται καὶ πλείονος δυσωπίας, ἄθροισον τὸν χορὸν τῶν σῶν ἀδελφῶν τῶν μαρτύρων, καὶ μετὰ πάντων δεήθητι· πολλῶν δικαίων εὐχαὶ, λαῶν καὶ δήμων ἁμαρτίας λυσάτωσαν· ὑπόμνησον Πέτρον, διέγειρον Παῦλον, Ἰωάννην ὁμοίως τὸν θεολόγον καὶ φιλούμενον μαθητήν· ἵν' ὑπὲρ τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν ἃς συνεστήσαντο μεριμνήσωσιν, ὑπὲρ ὧν τὰς ἁλύσεις ἐφόρεσαν, ὑπὲρ ὧν τοὺς κινδύνους καὶ τοὺς θανάτους ἤνεγκαν· μὴ εἰδωλολατρεία ἄρῃ καθ' ἡμῶν κεφαλὴν, μὴ αἱρέσεις ὡς ἄκανθαι τῷ ἀμπελῶνι ὑποβλαστήσωσι, μὴ ζιζάνιον ἐγερθὲν πνίξῃ τὸν σῖτον· μή τις πέτρα γένηται καθ' ἡμῶν λειπομένη τῆς πιότητος τῆς ἀληθινῆς δρόσου, καὶ ἄριζον ἀποδείξῃ τῆς εὐκαρπίας τοῦ λόγου τὴν δύναμιν· ἀλλὰ τῇ δυνάμει τῆς σῆς πρεσβείας καὶ τῶν σὺν σοὶ, θαυμαστὲ, καὶ ὑπερλάμπον ἐν τοῖς μάρτυσι λήϊον ἀποδειχθείη τὸ τῶν Χριστιανῶν πολίτευμα μέχρι τέλους μένον, ἐν τῇ λιπαρᾷ καὶ εὐκάρπῳ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ πίστεως ἀρούρᾳ ἀεὶ καρποφοροῦν τὴν αἰώνιον ζωὸν, τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν. Μεθ' οὗ τῷ Πατρὶ ἅμα τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι, δόξα, κράτος, τιμὴ, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.