was said to be most learned and most faithful; who received Origen the writer, as he was fleeing the insurrection of the Greeks, for two years at her own expense, and refreshed the man with her service. I found these things written in a very old book written in verse, in which was written by the hand of Origen: 64.2 "This book I found with Juliana the virgin in Caesarea, while I was being hidden by her"; who said she had received it from Symmachus himself, the interpreter of the Jews. I have not incidentally set down the virtues of these women, so that we may learn that it is possible to profit in many ways if we wish. 65 .t The Narrative of Hippolytus 65.1 In another very old book, inscribed with the name of Hippolytus, the acquaintance of the apostles, I found such a narrative, that there was a certain most noble and most beautiful virgin in the city of the Corinthians, practicing virginity. At that time, during the period of the persecutions, they accused her to the then-presiding judge, who was a Greek, as one who blasphemed both the times and the emperors and defamed the idols. And the traffickers in such things commended her beauty. 65.2 The judge, therefore, being a woman-mad man, gladly received the accusation with his equestrian ears. And when, after trying every device, he was unable to persuade the woman, then, enraged at her, he did not hand her over to punishment or to torture, but setting her up in a brothel, he commanded the one who managed these women, saying, "Take this one, bringing me three nomismata daily from her." And he, collecting the gold, gave her up to those who wanted her. When therefore the woman-hawks concerning these things knew, they lay in wait at the workshop of destruction, and giving the coin, they spoke to her things for deception. 65.3 But she, beseeching them, entreated them, saying, "I have a certain sore in a hidden place which smells horribly, and I fear that you may come to hate me; grant me therefore a few days, and you shall have power to have me even for free." Therefore with prayers she supplicated God in those days; whence God, seeing her chastity, put into a certain young magisterianus, noble in mind and in form, a fire-breathing zeal for death. And going away in the guise of debauchery, he enters late in the evening to the one who kept these women, and gives him five nomismata and says to him: "Permit me to stay this night with her." 65.4 Entering therefore into the hidden chamber, he says to her: "Arise, save yourself." And having undressed her and changed her clothes with his own garments, both with the shirts and the cloak and all the manly things, he says to her: "Covering yourself with the edge of the cloak, go out." And thus having sealed herself and gone out, she was saved, uncorrupted and undefiled. Therefore on the next day the deed was made known; the magisterianus was handed over and thrown to the beasts, so that in this also the demon might be put to shame, because he became a double martyr, both on his own behalf and on behalf of that blessed woman. 66 .t Concerning Verus, of the comites 66.1 In Ancyra of Galatia, in the city itself, I met a certain most distinguished Verus, of whom I have had long experience, who was of the comites, together with his freedwoman Bosporia; who drove to such a degree of good hope as even to disregard their children, seeing in deed the things to come. For they spend the revenues of their lands on the poor, having two daughters and four sons, to whom they give not even a vine-branch except to the married ones, saying, "After our death, all things are yours"; and carrying the fruits of their possessions, they distribute them in the churches of cities and villages. 66.2 And indeed this also is virtuous in them; when a famine occurred and was taking hold of the very bowels, they brought the heresies to orthodoxy, in many places providing their granaries for the nourishment of the poor. But for the rest, adopting a very solemn and simple manner, they wear extremely inexpensive clothes, and live on the most meager food, practicing sobriety towards God, for the most part associating with the fields and fleeing the cities, lest by the joyful welcome

λογιωτάτη ἐλέγετο καὶ πιστοτάτη· ἥτις Ὠριγένην τὸν συγγραφέα φεύγοντα τὴν ἐπανάστασιν τῶν Ἑλ λήνων ἐδέξατο ἐπὶ δύο ἔτη ἰδίοις ἀναλώμασι καὶ ὑπηρεσίᾳ ἀναπαύσασα τὸν ἄνδρα. Εὗρον δὲ ταῦτα ἐγὼ γεγραμμένα ἐν παλαιοτάτῳ βιβλίῳ στιχηρῷ, ἐν ᾧ ἐγέγραπτο χειρὶ Ὠριγένους· 64.2 "Τοῦτο τὸ βιβλίον εὗρον ἐγὼ παρὰ Ἰουλια νῇ τῇ παρθένῳ ἐν Καισαρείᾳ, κρυπτόμενος παρ' αὐτῇ"· ἥτις ἔλεγε παρ' αὐτοῦ Συμμάχου τοῦ ἑρμηνέως τῶν Ἰου δαίων αὐτὸ εἰληφέναι. Οὐ παρέργως δὲ τέθεικα καὶ τὰς ἀρετὰς τούτων τῶν γυναικῶν, ἵνα μάθωμεν ὅτι πολυτρόπως ἔνεστι κερδαίνειν ἐὰν ἐθέλωμεν. 65 .t∆ιήγησις Ἱππολύτου 65.1 Ἐν ἄλλῳ βιβλίῳ παλαιοτάτῳ ἐπιγεγραμμένῳ Ἱππολύτου τοῦ γνωρίμου τῶν ἀποστόλων εὗρον διήγημα τοιοῦ τον, ὅτι εὐγενεστάτη τις καὶ ὡραιοτάτη παρθένος ὑπῆρχεν ἐν τῇ Κορινθίων πόλει ἀσκουμένη εἰς τὴν παρθενίαν. Ταύτην κατ' ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ διέβαλον τῷ τότε δικάζοντι Ἕλληνι ὄντι κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῶν διωκτῶν, ὡς βλασφημοῦσαν καὶ τοὺς καιροὺς καὶ τοὺς βασιλεῖς καὶ δυσφημοῦσαν τὰ εἴδωλα. Προσεπῄνουν δὲ τὸ ταύτης κάλλος οἱ περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα κά πηλοι. 65.2 Γυναικομανὴς οὖν ὑπάρχων ὁ δικαστὴς ἡδέως ἐδέξατο τὴν διαβολὴν τοῖς ἱππικοῖς ὠτίοις. Καὶ ὡς πᾶσαν μηχανὴν κινήσας πεῖσαι τὴν ἄνθρωπον οὐκ ἠδυνήθη, τότε ἀπομανεὶς πρὸς αὐτὴν τιμωρίᾳ αὐτὴν οὐ παρέδωκεν, οὐ βασάνῳ, ἀλλὰ στήσας αὐτὴν εἰς πορνεῖον ἐνετείλατο τῷ νέμοντι ταύτας ὅτι "∆έξαι ταύτην, ἡμερήσιόν μοι τρία νο μίσματα φέρων ἐκ ταύτης". Ὁ δὲ εἰσπραττόμενος τὸν χρυσὸν ἔκδοτον αὐτὴν παρεῖχε τοῖς βουλομένοις. Ὡς οὖν ἔγνωσαν οἱ περὶ ταῦτα γυναικοϊέρακες παρήδρευσαν τῷ ἐργαστηρίῳ τῆς ἀπωλείας, καὶ διδόντες τὸ κέρμα ὡμίλουν αὐτῇ τὰ πρὸς ἀπάτην. 65.3 Ἡ δὲ ἐκλιπαροῦσα αὐτοὺς παρ εκάλει λέγουσα ὅτι "Ἕλκος ἔχω τι εἰς κεκρυμμένον τόπον ὅπερ ἐσχάτως ὄζει, καὶ δέδοικα μὴ εἰς μῖσός μου ἔλθητε· ἔκδοτε οὖν μοι ὀλίγας ἡμέρας, καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχετε καὶ δωρεάν με ἔχειν". ∆εήσεσιν οὖν τὸν θεὸν ἱκέτευεν ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις· ὅθεν καὶ θεασάμενος ὁ θεὸς αὐτῆς τὴν σωφροσύνην νεανίσκῳ τινὶ μαγιστριανῷ, καλῷ τὴν γνώμην καὶ τῷ εἴδει, ἐνέθηκε ζῆλον πυριφλεγῆ θανάτου. Καὶ ἀπελθὼν τῷ σχήματι τῆς ἀκολασίας εἰσέρχεται βαθεῖαν ἑσπέραν πρὸς τὸν τρέ φοντα ταύτας, καὶ δίδωσιν αὐτῷ πέντε νομίσματα καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· "Συγχώρησόν μοι μεῖναι τὴν νύκτα ταύτην μετ' αὐτῆς". 65.4 Εἰσελθὼν οὖν εἰς τὸν ἀπόκρυφον οἶκον λέγει αὐτῇ· "Ἀνάστα, σῶσον σεαυτήν". Καὶ ἐκδύσας αὐτὴν καὶ μεταμφιάσας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἱματίοις, τοῖς τε καμισίοις καὶ τῇ χλανίδι καὶ τοῖς ἀνδρίοις πᾶσι, λέγει αὐτῇ· "Τῷ ἄκρῳ τῆς χλανίδος περικαλυψαμένη ἔξελθε". Καὶ οὕτως κατασφρα γισαμένη καὶ ἐξελθοῦσα ἄφθορος καὶ ἀμίαντος διασέσωσται. Τῇ οὖν ἄλλῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἐγνώσθη τὸ δρᾶμα· παρεδόθη ὁ μα γιστριανὸς καὶ ἐβλήθη θηρίοις, ἵνα καὶ ἐν τούτῳ ὁ δαίμων καταισχυνθῇ ὅτι διπλοῦς ἐγένετο μάρτυς, καὶ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆς μακαρίας ἐκείνης. 66 .tΠερὶ Οὐήρου ἀπὸ κομήτων 66.1 Ἐν Ἀγκύρᾳ τῆς Γαλατίας ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ πόλει περιέτυχον Οὐήρῳ τινὶ λαμπροτάτῳ οὗ καὶ μακρὰν πεῖραν ἔσχηκα, ὃς ἦν ἀπὸ κομήτων, ἅμα τῇ τούτου ἐλευθέρᾳ Βο σπορίῃ· οἵτινες ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἐλπίδος χρηστῆς ἤλασαν ὡς καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν παραλογίσασθαι, ἔργῳ τὰ μέλλοντα βλέποντες. Τὰς γὰρ προσόδους τῶν χωρίων ἀναλίσκουσιν εἰς τοὺς πενομένους, δύο θυγατέρας καὶ τέσσαρας υἱοὺς ἔχον τες, οἷς οὐδὲ κλῆμα ἐπιδιδόασι παρεκτὸς ταῖς γαμηθείσαις, λέγοντες ὅτι "Μετὰ τὴν ἀποβίωσιν ἡμῶν πάντα ὑμέτερά ἐστι"· τοὺς δὲ καρποὺς τῶν κτημάτων κομιζόμενοι ἐν ἐκ κλησίαις πόλεων καὶ κωμῶν διανέμουσιν. 66.2 Ὃ δὴ καὶ τοῦτο ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐνάρετον ὑπάρχει· λιμοῦ γενομένου καὶ κατὰ σπλάγχνων χωροῦντος, τὰς αἱρέσεις εἰς ὀρθοδοξίαν μετήνεγ καν, ἐν πολλοῖς χωρίοις τοὺς σιτοβολῶνας αὐτῶν παρασχόν τες εἰς διατροφὴν τοῖς πένησι. Τὸ δὲ ἄλλο σχῆμα σεμνότατον λίαν καὶ εὐτελὲς ἀναλαβόντες ὀλιγοδάπανα σφόδρα φοροῦσιν ἱμάτια, εὐτελεστάτῃ δὲ τροφῇ διαζῶσιν, ἐξασκοῦντες τὴν εἰς θεὸν σωφροσύνην, τὰ πλεῖστα τοῖς ἀγροῖς προσομιλοῦν τες καὶ φεύγοντες τὰς πόλεις, μήποτε τῷ συνασμενισμῷ