9.) Their reasonings are almost the same; but we may discover, that one of these apologists had been a lawyer, and the other a rhetorician.] [Footnote 64a: The more ancient as well as authentic memorials of the church, relate many examples of the fact, (of these severe trials,) which there is nothing to contradict.

Tertullian, among others, says, Nam proxime ad lenonem damnando Christianam, potius quam ad leonem, confessi estis labem pudicitiae apud nos atrociorem omni poena et omni morte reputari, Apol.cap.ult.Eusebius likewise says, "Other virgins, dragged to brothels, have lost their life rather than defile their virtue." Euseb.Hist.Ecc.viii.

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The miraculous interpositions were the offspring of the coarse imaginations of the monks .-- M.] [Footnote 65: See two instances of this kind of torture in the Acta Sincere Martyrum, published by Ruinart, p.

160, 399.