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These men, after escorting confessors as far as the mines there in Cilicia, were returning to their own homes. Likewise, then, they too at the very entrances of the gates of Caesarea, being questioned by the guards—and these were certain barbarians in their manner—as to who they were and from where they had come, and concealing nothing of the truth, were arrested, as if they were criminals caught in the act; and these were five in number. 11.7 Who, having been brought before the tyrant and having spoken freely before him, were immediately confined in prison; and on the next day, the sixteenth of the month Peritius, which according to the Romans is the fourteenth day before the Calends of March, by order they bring these very men, along with those mentioned with Pamphilus, before the judge. 11.8 Who first made trial of the invincible constancy of the Egyptians with all sorts of tortures and with the contrivance of strange and various instruments. After having trained their leader in these contests, he first asked who he was, and then, upon hearing a prophetic name instead of his proper name—and this was done by all of them, having changed their own names for themselves instead of the ones given by their fathers, which might happen to be idolatrous. For you would have heard them calling themselves Elijah and Jeremiah and Isaiah and Samuel and Daniel, and showing themselves to be the Jew in secret, and a genuine and pure Israel of God, not only by deeds but also by the names they properly bore—so when Firmilianus heard such a name from the martyr, not understanding the meaning of the word, he asked, second, what his native country was. 11.9 And he, in harmony with his first answer, gave a second response, saying that his native country was Jerusalem, meaning of course that one of which Paul has said, 'But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother,' and, 'you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.' 11.10 And he, indeed, meant this one; but the other, casting his mind down to the earth and to the ground, inquisitively asked what this city was and where on earth it was located, and then applied tortures, so that he might confess the truth. But he, though his hands were twisted behind him and his feet were being crushed by some strange devices, insisted that he had spoken the truth. 11.11 Then, when he asked again many times what and where this city he spoke of was located, he said that this was the native country of the godly alone; for no others than these alone had a share in it, and that it was situated towards the very east and towards the rising sun. 11.12 He, for his part, again philosophized through these things according to his own understanding, paying no attention to the tortures tormenting him all around, but as if fleshless and bodiless, seeming not even to feel the pains; but the other, at a loss, was agitated, thinking that the Christians had by all means established a city hostile and at war with the Romans, and he was very keen on searching for it and examining the indicated land in the east. 11.13 But when, after having worn down the young man with more scourgings and having punished him with all sorts of tortures, he perceived that his constancy to what he had said before was unchanged, he passed the capital sentence of death against him. Such, then, was the dramatic turn of events concerning this man; and having trained the rest in similar contests, he dispatched them in the same way. 11.14 Then, growing weary and realizing that he was punishing the men in vain, having had his fill of desire, he turned to those with Pamphilus; and having been informed that even before they had shown through tortures their unchangeable zeal for the faith, he asked if they would perhaps even now obey, and receiving from each one only their final utterance of confession in martyrdom, he inflicted the same punishment as on the former. 11.15 When these things had been brought to an end, a youth, who was one of the household servants of Pamphilus, having been trained, as it were, by the genuine upbringing and education of so great a man,

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Κιλικίαν οὗτοι μέχρι τῶν αὐτόθι μετάλλων ὁμολογητὰς προπέμψαντες, ἐπαλινόστουν ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα. ὁμοίως δῆτα καὶ αὐτοὶ πρὸς αὐταῖς εἰσόδοις τῶν κατὰ Καισάρειαν πυλῶν, τίνες τε εἶεν καὶ ὁπόθεν ἀφικνούμενοι, πρὸς τῶν φυλάκων βάρβαροι δέ τινες ὑπῆρχον οὗτοι τὸν τρόπον ἀνερωτηθέντες καὶ μηδὲν τῆς ἀληθείας ἀποκρυψάμενοι, οἷα κακοῦργοι ἐπ' αὐτοφώρῳ ληφθέντες, συνείχοντο· πέντε δ' ἦσαν οὗτοι τὸν ἀριθμόν· 11.7 οἳ καὶ προσαχθέντες τῷ τυράννῳ κἀπὶ τούτου παρρησιασάμενοι, αὐτίκα μὲν καθείργνυνται δεσμωτηρίῳ· τῇ δ' ἑξῆς, Περιτίου μηνὸς ἡμέρᾳ ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ Μαρτίου κατὰ Ῥωμαίους ἡ πρὸ δεκατεσσάρων Καλανδῶν, ἐκ προστάγματος τούτους δὴ αὐτοὺς ἅμα τοῖς ἀμφὶ τὸν Πάμφιλον δεδηλωμένοις τῷ δικαστῇ προσάγουσιν· 11.8 ὃς καὶ πρῶτον τῆς τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀκαταμαχήτου ἐνστάσεως παντοίοις βασάνων εἴδεσιν μηχανῶν τε ξένων καὶ ποικίλων ἐπινοίαις πεῖραν λαμβάνει. τὸν μὲν προήγορον ἁπάντων τούτοις ἐγγυμνάσας τοῖς ἄθλοις, τίς εἴη, πρῶτον ἠρώτα, εἶτ' ἀντὶ τοῦ κυρίου ὀνόματος προφητικόν τι ἐπακούσας-τοῦτο δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἁπάντων ἐγίνετο, ἀντὶ τῶν πατρόθεν αὐτοῖς ἐπιπεφημισμένων εἰδωλικῶν ὄντων, εἰ τύχοι, μετατεθεικότων ἑαυτοῖς τὰς προσηγορίας. Ἠλίαν γοῦν καὶ Ἱερεμίαν Ἡσαΐαν τε καὶ Σαμουὴλ καὶ ∆ανιὴλ ἤκουες ἂν αὐτῶν ἐπιγραφομένων καὶ τὸν ἐν κρυπτῷ Ἰουδαῖον γνήσιόν τε καὶ εἰλικρινῶς Ἰσραὴλ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ μόνον ἔργοις, ἀλλὰ φωναῖς κυρίως ἐκφερομέναις ἐπιδεικνυμένων-τοιοῦτον οὖν τι πρὸς τοῦ μάρτυρος ὄνομα ἐπακούσας ὁ Φιρμιλιανός, οὐ μὴν ἐπιστήσας τῇ τοῦ ῥήματος δυνάμει, δεύτερον ἥτις αὐτοῦ πατρὶς γένοιτο, ἠρώτα· 11.9 ὃ δὲ συνῳδὸν τῇ προτέρᾳ δευτέραν ἀφίησιν φωνήν, Ἱερουσαλὴμ εἶναι λέγων τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδα, ἐκείνην δῆτα νοῶν περὶ ἧς εἴρηται τῷ Παύλῳ ἡ δὲ ἄνω Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐλευθέρα ἐστίν, ἥτις ἐστὶν μήτηρ ἡμῶν καὶ προσεληλύθατε Σιὼν ὄρει καὶ πόλει θεοῦ ζῶντος, Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ. 11.10 καὶ ὃ μὲν ταύτην ἐνόει· ὃ δ' ἐπὶ χθόνα καὶ χαμαὶ ῥίψας τὴν διάνοιαν, ἥτις εἴη αὕτη καὶ ποῖ γῆς κειμένη, ἀκριβῶς ἐπολυπραγμόνει, εἶτα καὶ βασάνους ἐπῆγεν, ὡς ἂν τἀληθὲς ὁμολογοίη. ὃ δὲ στρεβλούμενος κατόπιν τὼ χεῖρε καὶ τοῖν ποδοῖν μαγγάνοις τισὶ ξένοις διακλώμενος, τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν ἀπισχυρίζετο. 11.11 εἶτα πάλιν πολλάκις ἐρομένου τίς εἴη καὶ ποῖ κειμένη ἣν δὴ φράζει πόλιν, μόνων εἶναι τῶν θεοσεβῶν ταύτην ἔλεγεν πατρίδα· μὴ γὰρ ἑτέροις ἢ τούτοις μόνοις αὐτῆς μετεῖναι, κεῖσθαι δὲ πρὸς αὐταῖς ἀνατολαῖς καὶ πρὸς ἀνίσχοντι ἡλίῳ. 11.12 ὃ μὲν πάλιν διὰ τούτων κατὰ τὸν ἴδιον νοῦν ἐφιλοσόφει, μηδαμῶς τῶν ἐν κύκλῳ βασάνοις αὐτὸν αἰκιζομένων ἐπιστροφὴν ποιούμενος, ἄσαρκος δ' ὥσπερ καὶ ἀσώματος οὐδ' ἐπαΐειν δοκῶν τῶν ἀλγηδόνων· ὃ δ' ἀπορούμενος ἐσφάδαζεν, ἐχθρὰν καὶ Ῥωμαίοις πολεμίαν πάντως που συστήσασθαι πόλιν Χριστιανοὺς οἰόμενος, πολύς τε ἦν ταύτην ἀνερευνῶν καὶ τὴν δηλωθεῖσαν χώραν κατ' ἀνατολὰς ἐξετάζων. 11.13 ὡς δ' ἐπὶ πλεῖον μάστιξι τὸν νεανίαν καταξήνας παντοίαις τε τιμωρησάμενος βασάνοις ἀπαράλλακτον τὴν ἔνστασιν τῶν πρότερον αὐτῷ ῥηθέντων ἐγίνωσκεν, τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ κατ' αὐτοῦ κεφαλικὴν ἐκφέρει ψῆφον. τοσαύτην μὲν οὖν τὰ κατὰ τοῦτον δραματουργίαν εἰλήχει· καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς δὲ τοῖς παραπλησίοις ἄθλοις ἐγγυμνάσας τὸν ὅμοιον ἀπαλλάττει τρόπον. 11.14 εἶτ' ἀποκαμὼν διαγνούς τε εἰς μάτην τιμωρεῖσθαι τοὺς ἄνδρας, ἐπιθυμίας κόρον λαβών, ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀμφὶ τὸν Πάμφιλον μέτεισιν, ἀναδιδαχθείς τε ὡς ἤδη καὶ πρότερον διὰ βασάνων ἀμετάθετον ἐνεδείξαντο τὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς πίστεως προθυμίαν, ἀνερωτήσας εἰ ἄρα εἰς ἔτι κἂν νῦν πειθαρχοῖεν, δεξάμενός τε αὐτὸ μόνον παρ' ἑνὸς ἑκάστου τὴν τελευταίαν αὐτῶν τῆς κατὰ τὸ μαρτύριον ὁμολογίας φωνήν, τὴν αὐτὴν τοῖς προτέροις ἐπάγει τιμωρίαν. 11.15 τούτων ἐπὶ πέρας ἀχθέντων, μειράκιον τῆς οἰκετικῆς ὑπάρχον τοῦ Παμφίλου θεραπείας, οἷα γνησίᾳ ἀνατροφῇ καὶ παιδείᾳ τοῦ τηλικούτου συνησκημένον ἀνδρός,