43:1
Igitur ea tempestate, cum quadragesimo et sexto anno sacerdotii sui Athanasius, post multos agones multasque patientiae coronas quievisset in pace, sciscitatus de successore, Petrum tribulationum suarum participem et socium delegit. Sed Lucius Arianae partis Episcopus, continuo tanquam ad ovem advolat lupus. Et Petrus quidem navem protinus conscendens, ad urbem Romam profugit. Lucius vero tanquam materia sibi crudelitatis oblata, saevior erga caeteros efficiebatur. Et ita ibat in sanguinem, ut ne speciem quidem aliquam religionis servare videretur, cujus primo ingressu tanta et tam turpia in virgines et continentes Ecclesiae gesta sunt, quae nec in persecutionibus Gentilium memorantur.
於是在那個時候，亞他那修在他作祭司的第四十六年，經過許多爭戰、許多忍耐的冠冕之後，已安然長眠，臨終被問及繼任者時，他選了彼得，就是與他同受患難的同伴。但亞流派的主教路求斯立刻像狼撲羊一般撲向他。彼得當即登船逃往羅馬城。路求斯卻彷彿得了施展殘忍的材料，向其餘的人愈發凶暴。他這樣地大行流血之事，以致似乎連敬虔的外貌都不保留；他一上任，便對教會的童女與守貞之人做出許多可恥的事，是連外邦人逼迫中也不曾記載的。
Therefore at that time, when in the forty-sixth year of his priesthood Athanasius, after many struggles and many crowns of patience, had rested in peace, being asked about a successor, he chose Peter, the partner and companion of his tribulations. But Lucius, bishop of the Arian party, straightway flew upon him like a wolf upon a sheep. And Peter indeed, immediately boarding a ship, fled to the city of Rome. But Lucius, as though material for his cruelty had been offered him, grew the more savage toward the rest. And so he went into bloodshed in such a manner that he seemed not to preserve even any appearance of religion; for at his very entry such great and shameful things were done against the virgins and the continent of the Church as are not recorded even in the persecutions of the heathen.
43:2
Inde post fugas civium et exilia, post caedes et tormenta, flammasque quibus innumeros confecerat , ad monasteria furoris sui arma convertit. Vastat eremum, et bella quiescentibus indicit. Tria millia simul, aut eo amplius, viros per totam eremum secreta et solitaria habitatione dispersos oppugnare pariter aggreditur. Mittit armatam equitum ac peditum manum: Tribunos, Praepositos, et bellorum duces, tanquam adversum Barbaros pugnaturus elegit. Qui cum venissent, novam belli speciem vident, hostes suos gladiis objectare cervices, et nihil aliud dicere, nisi: Amice, ad quid venisti?
然後，在百姓的逃亡與流放之後，在屠殺、酷刑、以及他藉以毀滅無數人的火焰之後，他把暴怒的兵器轉向修道院。他蹂躪曠野，向那些安居的人宣戰。他著手同時攻擊三千人，甚至更多——就是那些散居在整個曠野、隱密獨處的人。他派出一隊武裝的騎兵與步兵：揀選了千夫長、督官和戰役的將領，彷彿要去與蠻族作戰。這些人到了，卻看見一種新樣的戰爭：他們的敵人把頸項伸向刀劍，別無所言，只說：「朋友，你為何而來？」
Then, after the flights and exiles of citizens, after slaughters and tortures and the flames by which he had destroyed countless souls, he turned the weapons of his fury against the monasteries. He laid waste the desert and declared war upon men who were at peace. Three thousand at once, or even more—men dispersed throughout the whole desert in secret and solitary dwelling—he set out to assail all together. He sent an armed band of horse and foot: tribunes, prefects, and commanders of war he chose, as though about to fight against Barbarians. When these had come, they saw a new kind of warfare: their foes offering their necks to the swords and saying nothing else but: 'Friend, for what hast thou come?'