[727] Excerpta Lat. Barbari, ed. Frick, 359. Theophanes gives a still earlier date, i.e. 5817 of the world = 317 A.D. He also places the death of Macarius and Helena in the same year as the discovery of the cross. In the Excerpta Barbari we find the words πρὸ ἡ καλανδῶν Δεκεμβρίων, but this must be an error, for immediately afterwards follows ὅ ἐστι Θώθ ιζ’. Thoth coincides with September, not with December. See Schoene, Euseb. Chron., i. 234. The Liber Pontificalis, “Vita Euseb.,” i. 167, places the finding of the cross on the 3rd May 310; but this is obviously a mistake.
[728] Duchesne, Lib. Pont., i., preface, cviii.
[729] Peregr. Silviæ, c. 48, ed. Geyer, 74 cod.
[730] Geyer, Itin. Hierosol., 149.
[731] Arculf in Adamnanus, De Locis Sanctis, 3, 3; ib. 287.
[732] Muralt, Chronogr. Byz., i., 272, 286. Theophanes, ed. Bonn, i. 504, ad ann. 6120. Chron. Pasch., ed. Bonn, i. 704, ad ann. 6122, relates only the carrying away of the cross, and then concludes.
[733] The Menologium Constantinopolitarium has an “Adoratio Pretiosæ Crucis” on 31st July, the meaning of which is not stated. Morcelli, i. 63.
[734] Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxii. 285, 511.
[735] See the new edition by Wilson.
[736] The text of De Rossi and Duchesne in Act. SS. (54). A better word would have been “recuperatio.”