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of the presbyter of the Holy Apostles in the Periteichisma, a wonderful man and one who served God, who said to them that he who writes with an accurate account would not escape the eye of all-seeing justice. And when they had ceased from their disturbance out of respect for the man, Olympius stood up and, having used the warm baths as was his custom, went out to the reservoir of cold water, which receives its water from a spring that rises in the middle of the holy altar of the sacred house of the protomartyr Stephen, which Aurelianus, having shone in ancient magisterial dignities, had built; from here, I believe, the water is deemed worthy of divine oversight. Into which having descended, he more quickly ascends, shouting, 'Have mercy on me, have mercy,' and scratching his flesh, he separated it from his bones. And all who were around him, having seized him and wrapped him in a linen cloth, laid him down as he was breathing his last. And they were asking what had happened; and Olympius says: 'I saw a man in white garments coming upon me by the pool and pouring three buckets of hot water over me and saying to me: 'Do not blaspheme'.' And those who belonged to him, taking him on a litter, moved him to another bath adjacent to the church of the Arians. And when they wanted to unwrap the linen cloth from him, they tore away all his flesh with it, and thus having died, he gave up his spirit. And this became known throughout almost the entire imperial city. And some reported concerning the one who had suffered that some time ago he had been rebaptized from the religion that professes the homoousion to the worship of Arius. And since what had happened also reached the ears of the emperors—and it was Anastasius—he allowed the prodigious event, having been painted in an icon, to be fixed above the pool. And a certain John, a deacon and advocate of the aforementioned sacred house of Stephen, the first of the martyrs, a man who, if anyone else, always showed zeal for the homoousian dogma, also recorded it in an icon, but not simply; for he recorded the names of those who were bathing there and had seen it, and where each one lived, and moreover also of those who were serving at the waters. And the icon testifies to this to the present day, being fixed in the portico of the four-sided court of the often-mentioned oratory. And since a wonder followed upon the wonder, it is not pious to overlook what pertains to the same subject, which, even if it has passed the present time, I will not hesitate to speak of. For those of the Arian faction, seeing the prevailing triumph, beseeched the one entrusted with the care of the palace of Helenianae, as he was both prefect and had authority over the administration of the bath, to hide the icon. Who, having found a clever pretext in the dampness coming from the waters, took down the icon as if it were damaged, he says, and hid it for the sake of repair. Which the emperor, making his periodic visits to each royal place, when he arrived there also, sought for the icon; and thus it was again fixed to the wall. And immediately a divinely judged wrath seized Eutychianus (for this was the name of the bath-keeper) and caused his right eye to flow out, and shaking his other limbs most wretchedly, it prepared him to approach the sacred oratory, where a portion of the holy relics of the divine Pantoleon and Marinus is believed to rest, the place being called Homonoia from the fact that the one hundred and fifty bishops, having come together there under Theodosius the great emperor, to make a certain common and agreed-upon teaching of both the homoousion of the divine Trinity and to clarify the taking of flesh from a virgin in the incarnation of the Lord, acquired this name. And when for about seven days he persevered and benefited nothing, but his testicles were also eaten away, in the middle of one of the nights the subdeacon who had been assigned to keep the all-night vigil sees in a dream a certain king standing over him and with his hand

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πρεσβυτέρου τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ἐν τῷ περιτειχίσματι, ἀνθρώπου θαυμαστοῦ καὶ τὸν θεὸν θεραπεύοντος, φήσαντος πρὸς αὐτούς, ὡς οὐκ ἂν διαλάθῃ τὸν τῆς παντεφόρου δίκης ὀφθαλμὸν ἀκριβεῖ λόγῳ γράφοντα. Αἰδοῖ δὲ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τῆς ταραχῆς παυσαμένων ἐξανέστη ὁ Ὀλύμπιος καὶ τῇ ἐμβάσει τῶν θερμῶν ὡς ἔθος χρησάμενος ἔξεισιν ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ψυχρῶν ὑδάτων δεξαμένην, ἥτις λαμβάνει τὰ ὕδατα ἐκ πηγῆς τικτομένης μέσον τοῦ σεπτοῦ θυσιαστηρίου τοῦ εὐαγοῦς οἴκου τοῦ πρωτομάρτυρος Στεφάνου, ὃν ἐν παλαιοῖς ἔκτισεν ἀξιώμασιν ἀρχοντικοῖς διαλάμψας Αὐρηλιανός· ἐνθένδε ἡγοῦμαι θείας ἐποψίας τὸ ὕδωρ ἀξιοῦσθαι. Ἐν ᾗ καταβὰς θᾶττον ἐπαναβαίνει κραυγάζων· «Ἐλεήσατέ με, ἐλεήσατε», καὶ κνήθων αὐτοῦ τὰς σάρκας τῶν ὀστῶν ἀπεμέριζε. Πάντες δὲ περὶ αὐτὸν γενόμενοι καὶ κρατήσαντες, σινδόνι περιτυλίξαντες ἀνέκλιναν ψυχορραγοῦντα. Ἐπηρώτων δέ, τί ἂν εἴη τὸ συμβάν· καί φησιν ὁ Ὀλύμπιος· «Ἄνδρα κατεῖδον λευχειμονοῦντα ἐπιβάντα μοι κατὰ τῆς νεροφόρου καὶ τρεῖς σίκλας θερμοῦ περιχέαντά μοι καὶ λέγοντά μοι· «Μὴ δυσφήμει».» Λαβόντες δὲ αὐτὸν φορείῳ οἱ αὐτῷ διαφέροντες μετεκόμισαν ἐν ἑτέρῳ λουτρῷ προσκειμένῳ τῇ τῶν Ἀρειανῶν ἐκκλησίᾳ. Θελόντων δὲ αὐτῶν ἀποτυλίξαι τὴν σινδόνα ἀπ' αὐτοῦ συνεξέπαιρον πάσας τὰς σάρκας αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὕτως νεκρωθεὶς ἀπέδωκε τὸ πνεῦμα. Γνωστὸν δὲ ἐγένετο τοῦτο σχεδὸν καθ' ὅλης τῆς βασιλίδος. Ἐφήμιζον δέ τινες περὶ τοῦ πεπονθότος, ὡς χρόνοις τισὶν ἀπὸ τῆς τὸ ὁμοούσιον δοξαζούσης θρησκείας εἰς τὴν Ἀρείου μετεβαπτίσατο λατρείαν. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ τὸ συμβεβηκὸς καὶ ἀκοαῖς βασιλέων ἐπλησίασεν-Ἀναστάσιος δὲ ἦν-, ἐπέτρεψεν εἰκόνι χρωματισθὲν τὸ τεράστιον ὕπερθε τῆς νεροφόρου καταπαγῆναι. Ἰωάννης δέ τις διάκονος καὶ ἔκδικος τοῦ προλεχθέντος εὐαγοῦς οἴκου Στεφάνου τοῦ τῶν μαρτύρων πρώτου, ἀνὴρ εἰ καί τις ἄλλος ζῆλον ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὁμοουσίου δόγματος ἑκάστοτε ἐνδεικνύμενος καὶ αὐτὸς εἰκόνι κατέγραψεν, ἀλλ' οὐχ ἁπλῶς· τῶν γὰρ ἐκεῖσε λουομένων καὶ θεασαμένων τὰ ὀνόματα κατέγραψε, καὶ ἔνθα εἴη ἕκαστος οἰκῶν, ἔτι τε καὶ τῶν τοῖς ὕδασιν ὑπηρετούντων. Μαρτυρεῖ δὲ ἡ εἰκὼν ἄχρι τοῦ παρόντος πεπηγυῖα ἐν τῷ ἐμβόλῳ τοῦ τετραστόου τοῦ πολλάκις εἰρημένου εὐκτηρίου. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ τῷ θαύματι θαῦμα ἐπηκολούθησεν, οὐχ ὅσιον παριδεῖν τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως τυγχάνον, ὅπερ, εἰ καὶ τὸν παρόντα καιρὸν ὑπερῆλθε, λέγειν οὐκ ὀκνήσω. Θεασάμενοι γὰρ οἱ τῆς Ἀρείου συμμορίας ἐπικρατοῦντα θρίαμβον ἐλιπάρησαν τὸν τοῦ παλατίου Ἑλενιανῶν τὴν φροντίδα πεπιστευμένον ὡς ἐξάρχοντα καὶ τῆς τοῦ λουτροῦ διοικήσεως καθελόντα, κατακρύψαι τὴν εἰκόνα. Ὃς πρόφασιν εὐμήχανον εὑράμενος τὴν ἐκ τῶν ὑδάτων προσγινομένην νοτίδα ὡς σκυλθεῖσαν τὴν εἰκόνα ἀφελόμενος, φησίν, ἐπὶ διορθώσει κατέκρυψεν. Ἣν ὁ βασιλεύς, ἐγκυκλίους ἐπιδημίας τελῶν εἰς ἕκαστον τόπον βασιλικόν, παραγενόμενος κἀκεῖσε τὴν εἰκόνα ἐπεζήτει· καὶ οὕτως αὖθις τῷ τοίχῳ κατεπάγη. Παρὰ πόδας δὲ τὸν Εὐτυχιανόν (τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ὄνομα τῷ διαιταρίῳ) ὀργή τις θεοδίκαστος παραλαβοῦσα τὸν μὲν δεξιὸν ὀφθαλμὸν διαρρεῦσαι πεποίηκε, κακίστως δὲ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ περισείουσα μέλη, προσπελάσαι παρεσκεύασε τῷ εὐαγεῖ εὐκτηρίῳ, ἔνθα πεπίστευται ἀναπαύεσθαι μέρος ἱερῶν λειψάνων τῶν θεσπίων Παντολέοντος καὶ Μαρίνου, ἐπικαλουμένου τοῦ τόπου Ὁμόνοια ἐκ τοῦ ἐκεῖ συνελθόντας τοὺς ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα ἐπισκόπους ἐπὶ Θεοδοσίου τοῦ μεγάλου βασιλέως κοινήν τινα καὶ συμπεφωνημένην διδασκαλίαν τοῦ τε ὁμοουσίου τῆς θείας τριάδος ποιήσασθαι καὶ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως δὲ τοῦ κυρίου τρανῶσαι τὴν ἐκ παρθένου πρόσληψιν, ταύτην τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν τεκτήνασθαι. Ἡμέρας τε περίπου ἑπτὰ προσκαρτεροῦντος καὶ ὀνοῦντος οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ καὶ διαβρωθέντων αὐτῷ καὶ τῶν διδύμων, μεσούσης μιᾶς τῶν νυκτῶν ὁ λαχὼν ὑποδιάκονος τὴν παννύχιον ἔχειν ὁρᾷ κατ' ὄναρ βασιλέα τινὰ ἐπιστάντα καὶ τῇ χειρὶ