Indeed, by now, the soldiery, having surrounded in a circle a whole small town of Christians in Phrygia, with all its inhabitants, and having kindled fire, burned them up together with infants and women, while they called upon the God who is over all; because all the inhabitants of the town with one accord—the chief magistrate himself, and the general, with all the officials and the whole populace—confessing themselves Christians, would in no way whatever obey those who commanded them to worship idols.
And a certain other man, who had attained Roman rank, by name Adauctus, of a family illustrious among the Italians, a man who had passed through every honour with the emperors, so as blamelessly to have discharged the general administrations of what among them is called the magistracy and the office of catholicus, and who, distinguished above all these in his achievements in godliness and in his confessions of the Christ of God, was adorned with the diadem of martyrdom, having endured the conflict for the sake of godliness in the very exercise of the office of catholicus.