Esaias or
Esaiasthe Persian3. The PERSIAN. The
Acta of the Martyrs, Saints
Jonas and Barachisius in the
Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, are a version
of a Greek narrative, then, and probably still, extant in the Library of the Republic of
Venice, purporting to be drawn up by Esaias the soil of Adam, one of the horsemen ("eques,")
of Sapor, King of Persia, under whom the martyrs suffered. (
Acta Sanctorum,
Martii, vol. iii. p. 770, &c.)
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