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Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died

Lactantius

Chapter 51

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Author: Lactantius

Chap. LI.

Valeria, too, who for fifteen months had wandered

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under

a

mean

garb

from

province

to

province

,

was

at

length

discovered

in

Thessalonica

,

was

apprehended

,

together

with

her

mother

Prisca

,

and

suffered

capital

punishment

.

Both

the

ladies

were

conducted

to

execution

;

a

fall

from

grandeur

which

moved

the

pity

of

the

multitude

of

beholders

that

the

strange

sight

had

gathered

together

.

They

were

beheaded

,

and

their

bodies

cast

into

the

sea

.

Thus

the

chaste

demeanour

of

Valeria

,

and

the

high

rank

of

her

and

her

mother

,

proved

fatal

to

both

of

them

.

Notes

1
[See cap. 39, p. 317, supra.]