Victor said:
'I did cry out, and so did the people. For we wanted our fellow-citizen, a man of integrity.'
Zenophilus said:
'For what reason did you deem him unworthy?'
Victor said:
'We wanted one who was a man of integrity and our fellow-citizen. For I knew that for this reason we should have to go to the Emperor's Court, if the office were given to such as he.' |367
Then when Victor of Samsuricum and Saturninus the grave-diggers had been brought in and sworn, Zenophilus said:
'What is your name?'
Saturninus said:
'Saturninus.'
Zenophilus said:
'What is your station in life?'
Saturninus said:
'I am a grave-digger.'
Zenophilus said:
'Do you know that Silvanus is a Betrayer?'
Saturninus said:
'I know that he gave up a silver lamp.'
Zenophilus said to Saturninus:
'What else?'
Saturninus said:
' I do not know of anything else, excepting that he took the lamp from behind a tun.'
And after Saturninus had been ordered down, Zenophilus said to the one who remained standing:
'And you, what is your name?'
He answered: