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 196 Journal of Philology. scourged to death with thongs loaded with lead 17. Justinus with others buried them also by night in Cyriaca's catacombs 18 near the scene of their suffering, and they were ever afterwards com- memorated on the Ides, or 13th, of August, as Laurence was upon the 10th and Sixtus on the 6th. Now the passage of the old Roman Martyrology quoted by Bunsen will of course apply equally well to this Laurentian Hip- polytus and to the Hippolytus of Portus. To give a clear idea how it stands I give three entries from the calendarium Buche- rianum (the earliest known calendar, dating about A. D. 355.) [6. Aug.] viii. Id. Aug. Syxti in Callisti [ccemeterio.] [10. Aug.] iv. Id. Aug. Laurentii in Tiburtina. [13. Aug.] Id. Aug. Hippolythi in Tiburtina et Pontiani in Callisti. From the calendars next in antiquity no more than this can be gleaned. I give the entries from them in full with their dates in a note 19. With regard to Bunsen's argument (2) " from another ancient calendar," it is the Martyrologium Hieronymianum which has this entry : [6th Aug.] viii. Id. Aug. Romee Xisti Episcopi...Laurenti... Eppoliti. Now so far from implying " an earlier deposition of Hippolytus of Portus in the ccemetery of Callistus," it simply appends to the name of Sixtus (on Sixtus* day) the names of those who suffered in connection with him 20. This is plainly the case with Laurence, 17 Laurence himself is so scourged Calend. Oregorianum. (591. A.D.) in the frescoes of the portico of his Non. S. Xysti Episcopi. church. iv. Id. Nat. S. Laurentii. 18 "Ad Nympham ad latus agri Ve- Id. 8. Hippolythi. rani." Ado. So too an ancient Roman Calendar 19 Calend. Leonianum. (A. D. 448- in Martene Nov. The*. Vol. v. col. 76. 516.) Die x. mensis (Augusti) natalis S. viii. Id. Aug. Natale S. Sixti in Coe- Laurentii. met. Callisti. Die xiii. mensis natalis S. Yppoliti. iv. Id. Aug. Natale S. Laurentii. MabillonVcf. Anal. Tom. in. p. 399 Id. Aug. Natale SS. Hippolythi gives an ancient Carthaginian Calendar ct Pontiani. with Systus, Laurence, and Hippolytus Calend. Gelasianum. (495. A.D.) on their usual days. viii. Id. Aug. S. Sixti. M In exactly the same way the Greek iv. Id. Aug. S. Laurentii. calendar joins Sixtus and Hippolytus Id. Aug. S. Hippolythi. in the commemoration of Laurence on Aug. 10.