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Against the Donatists · Appendix 2. The trial before Zenophilus12

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Zenophilus said to Saturninus:

'Did they cry out that Silvanus was a Betrayer?' |372

Saturninus said:

'Yes.'

Nundinarius said:

'When he was made Bishop, we did not communicate with him because it was said that he was a Betrayer.'

Saturninus said:

'What he says is true.'

Nundinarius said:

'I saw Mutus the worker in the sand-quarries carry him on his shoulders. '

Zenophilus said to Saturninus:

'Did it happen in this way?'

Saturninus said:

'Yes, in this way.'

Zenophilus said:

'Is everything that Nundinarius says true----how Silvanus was made Bishop by the quarry-men?'

Saturninus said:

'It is all true.'

Nundinarius said:

'Common women were there.'

Zenophilus said to Saturninus:

'Did the quarry-men chair him?' |373

Saturninus said:

'They and the populace carried him; the citizens were shut up in the Martyrs' Hall.'

Nundinarius the Deacon said: