My LORD’s BibleMartyrdom of Polycarp 3
1For the devil did indeed invent many things against them; but thanks be to God, he could not prevail over all. For the most noble Germanicus strengthened the timidity of others by his own patience, and fought heroically with the wild beasts. For, when the proconsul sought to persuade him, and urged him to take pity upon his age, he attracted the wild beast towards himself, and provoked it, being desirous to escape all the more quickly from an unrighteous and impious world. But upon this the whole multitude, marvelling at the nobility of mind displayed by the devout and godly race of Christians, cried out, “Away with the atheists; let Polycarp be sought out!”
ITI. ᾿Αλλὰ χάρις τῷ Θεῷ᾽ κατὰ πάντων γὰρ οὐκ ἴσχυ- σεν. ὁ γὰρ γενναιότατος Τερμανικὸς ἑπερρώνννεν αὐτῶν τὴν δειλίαν διὰ τῆς ἐν αὐτῷ ὑπομονῆς" ὃς καὶ ἐπισήμως ἐθηριο- μάχησεν. βουλομένου γὰρ τοῦ ἀνθυπάτου πείθειν αὐτὸν καὶ λέγοντος τὴν ἡλικίαν αὐτοῦ κατοικτεῖραι, ἑαυτῷ ἐπεσπάσατο τὸ θηρίον προσβιασάμενος, τάχιον τοῦ ἀδίκου καὶ ἀνόμου βίου αὐτῶν ἀπαλλαγῆναι βουλόμενος. ἐκ τούτου οὖν πᾶν τὸ πλῆθος, θαυμάσαν τὴν γενναιότητα τοῦ θεοφιλοῦς καὶ θεοσε- βοῦς γένους τῶν Χριστιανῶν, ἐπεβόησεν᾽ Alpe τοὺς ἀθέους, ζητείσθω ἸΠολύκαρπος.