PERPETVA AND FELICITAS. 281 own power,but in thatof God.' And he departedfrom me in sorrow. 2. "Another day,whilewe were atdinner,we were suddenly taken away to be heard, and we arrivedat the town-hall. At once the rumour spread through the neighbourhood of the public place,and an immense number of people were gatheredtogether. We mount the platform. The restwere interrogated,and confessed. Then theycame to me, and my fatherimmediatelyappearedwith my boy, and withdrew me from the step,and saidin a supplicatingtone,'Have pityon your babe.' And Hilarianusthe procurator,who had just receivedthe power of lifeand death in the place of the proconsul Minucius Timinianus, who was deceased,said, * Spare the grey hairsof your father,spare the infancyof your boy,offersacrificeforthe well-beingof the emperors.' And I replied,'I willnot do so.' Hilarianussaid,'Are you a Christian?' And I replied,'I am a Christian.'And as my fatherstood thereto castme down [from the faith],he was ordered by Hilarianusto be thrown down, and was beaten with rods. And my father'smisfortune grieved me as if I myself had been beaten,I so grieved for his wretched old age. The procuratorthen deliversjudgment on allof us,and condemns us to the wild beasts,and we went down cheerfullyto the dungeon. Then, because my child had been used to receivesuck from me, and to stay with me in the prison,I send Pomponius the deacon to my father to ask forthe infant,but my fatherwould not giveit him. And even as God willedit,the childno longerdesired the breast,nor did my breastscause me uneasiness,lestI should be tormentedby careformy babe and by the pain of my breastsat once. 3. "After a few days,whilstwe were allpraying,on a sudden, in the middle of our prayer,there came to me a word, and I named Dinocrates; and I was amazed thatthat name had never come into my mind untilthen,and I was grieved as I remembered hismisfortune. And I feltmyself immediately to be worthy,and to be calledon to ask on his behalf. And for him I began earnestlyto make supplica