290 THE PASSION OF judge thee." At thisthe people,exasperated,demanded that they should be tormentedwith scourgesas they passedalong the rank of the venatores.1And they indeed rejoicedthat they shouldhave incurredany one of theirLord'spassions. 2. But He who had said,"Ask, and ye shallreceive,"1 gave tothem when they asked,thatdeathwhich each one had wished for. For when at any time theyhad been discoursing among themselvesabouttheirwish in respectof theirmartyr dom, Saturninus indeed had professedthat he wished that he might be thrown toallthe beasts; doubtlessthathe might wear a more gloriouscrown. Therefore in the beginning of theexhibition,he and Revocatus made trialof the leopard, and moreover upon the scaffoldthey were harassed,by the bear. Saturus,however,held nothingin greaterabomination than a bear; but he imagined that he would be put an end to with one biteof a leopard. Therefore,when a wild boar was supplied,itwas the huntsman ratherwho had supplied that boar who was gored by that same beast,and died the day afterthe shows. Saturus only was drawn out; and when he had been bound on the floornear to a bear,the bear would not come forth from his den. And so Saturus forthe secondtime isrecalledunhurt. 3. Moreover, for the young women the devilprepared a very fiercecow,providedespeciallyforthatpurpose contrary to custom,rivallingtheirsex alsoin thatof the beasts. And so,strippedand clothedwith nets,they were led forth. The populaceshuddered as theysaw one young woman of delicate frame, and another with breastsstilldropping from her recent childbirth. So, being recalled,they are unbound.8 Perpetua is firstled in. She was tossed,and fellon her loins; and when she saw her tunic torn from her side,she drew itover her as a veilfor her middle,rathermindful of her modesty than her suffering.Then she was calledfor 1A row of men drawnup to scourgethem as theypassedalong,— a punishmentprobablysimilartowhatiscalled" runningthegauntlet." 2Johnxvi.24. * Itarevocat®discinguntur.Dean Milman prefersreadingthis, " Thusrecalled,theyarecladinlooserobes."