[777] Martyrs of the name of Felix, number 118, Saturniuus 86, Januarius 68, Donatus 64, Cajus 40, Alexander 42, Lucian 28, etc. Similarly the common feminine names and Thecla. Afra occurs four times. Strange sounding names are found everywhere: e.g. Piperion, Prunimus, Tipecirus, Herifilius, Manira, Itercola, Eunuculus, and Eununculus, Barbalabia, etc. We are, however, ignorant of the names which the wealthy Romans were wont to give to their slaves.

[778] See Gregor. Turon., Mirac., i. 63. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxi. 762.

[779] Achelis sees in the phrase “in Africa” a reference to the massacres of Christians by the Vandals. See 101, seqq.

[780] Achelis gives examples, 209, 242, etc.

[781] Achelis, 115-118, has collected together 68 instances, which he has analysed critically and historically as far as possible.

[782] The entries respecting St Gereon and his companions may serve as an example. St Ursula and Palmatius with the “innumerabiles trevirenses” have no existence in the Hieronymianum. viii. Id. Oct. (8th October):—

BERNEEPTERNACHWEISSENBURG
Nothing.Agrippin. sct. Gereon et aliorum cccxcii. mart.Nothing.
vii. Id. Oct. Gereon cum sociis suis trecentorum decim et vii martirum quorum nomina Deus scit.Et alibi Cassi, eusebi, florenti, jocundi; Agrippinæ depos. scor. mart. mart. maurorum cum alis cccxxx.Coloniæ Agrippine nat. sctorum cccxvii. quorum nomina Deus scit.
vi. Id. Oct. Et alibi Cassi, eusebi, florenti, victoris, Agrippinæ mallusi cum aliis trecentos xxx.Nothing.Et alibi ... Heracli, cassi, eusebi, florenti victoris, Agrippinæ mallus cum aliis cccxxx.

[783] Achelis, 91 seqq.

[784] If this be the case, and it is not free from doubt, still the name of Arius was not read out “at the altar,” as Achelis states (87 and 98), for the martyrologies were not read at the altar but in the choir, and it would have happened only were the Weissenburg Codex in use, for other codices have different readings. The reading of the martyrology—not of the “Passions” of the martyrs—at the choir office dates back, as far as the evidence exists, to the ninth century. Bishop Gregorius of Corduba, whom Achelis (98, note 4) places at a very early period, is not an historical personage; he exists only in the list of bishops contained in the letters ascribed to St Jerome.

[785] In Codex 2171 nov. acqu. of the Nat. Libr., Paris, ed. by G. Morin in Anecdota Maredsolana, vol. i. 1893. Cf. præf., ii., viii., xiii., etc. [See also Le Liber ordinum de l’Eglise d’Espagne du Vᵉ au XIᵉ siècle, published by Dom. M. Férotin, 1904. Trans.]