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Life of St Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza

Mark the Deacon, tr. Hill, 1913

Chapter 99

But when we knew that the tumult of the city was stilled, we went by night into the holy church, and going up into the bishop’s house found naught in it, save only Barochas, beloved of God, lying nigh unto death by reason of the wounds that he had gotten from the godless and impious idolaters. But after a few days the consular (who was called Clarus), having learned that which had come to pass in the city, sendeth an officer1 with many soldiers, and putteth in ward those against whom the public officers2 informed him, and sendeth them unto Caesarea; and some he punished, and some he sent away after scourging them with whips; and so, having caused no little terror, he stilled the city.

Notes

  1. officer. κομενταρήσιον. See note on c. 27.
  2. public officers. δημοσιεύοντες: possibly subordinate police-officers, who in Egyptian villages seem to have been called δημόσιοι: see M. Gelzer, Studien zur byzantinischen Verwaltung Ägyptens, p. 58.

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