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Nam ante hos ferme annos quindecin., sicut hi testantur qui interesse potuerunt, h quadraginta rustici a Langobardis capti, carnes immolatitias comedere compellebatur. Qui cum valde resisterent, et con. tingere cibum sacrilegum nollent, cœpere Langobardi qui 340 eos tenuerant, nisi immolata cOllaederent, mortem eis minari. At illi æternam potius vitam quam pra semem ac transitoriam diligentes, fideliter perstiterunt, atque in sua constantia simul omnes orci i sunt. Quid itaque isti, nisi veritatis martyres fuerunt, qui, ne vetitum comedendo, Conditorem suum offenderent, elegerunt gladiis vitam finire?
For about fifteen years ago, as those testify who were able to be present, forty peasants captured by the Lombards were being compelled to eat meats offered to idols. When they strongly resisted and would not touch the sacrilegious food, the Lombards who held them began to threaten them with death unless they should eat the offered meat. But they, loving eternal life rather than the present and passing life, stood fast faithfully, and in their constancy were all slain together. What then were these men, if not martyrs of the truth, who, lest by eating the forbidden thing they should offend their Maker, chose to end their life by the sword?
約在十五年前，正如那些能夠在場的人所作證的，四十名被倫巴人擄去的農夫被迫吃祭偶像的肉。他們堅決抵抗，不肯觸碰那褻瀆的食物，那擄住他們的倫巴人便開始威嚇他們：若不吃那祭肉，就要處死他們。但他們愛慕永生過於現世短暫的生命，忠信地堅持到底，在他們的堅貞中一同被殺。那麼這些人若不是真理的殉道者，還能是什麼呢？他們為了不因吃禁物而觸犯他們的造物主，寧願以刀劍結束自己的生命。