On the Martyrdom and Commemorations of St Hippolytus. 199 x. Kal. Sep. In Portu urbis Romae natalis S. Hippolyti, Qui- riaci, et Archillai 24 . Usuardus, (A. D. 875), Id. Aug. Romae. S. Hippolytus, jubente Valeriano praeside, ligatus pedes ad "colla indomitorum equorum sic per car- detum et tribulos tractus emisit spiritum ... Concordia caesa plumbatis . . . x. Kal. Sep. In Portu urbis Romas SS. Ypoliti, Quiriaci, et Archillai 25 . The Martyrology called Bede's (A. D. 830) has Id. Aug. The same words nearly as the last, and exactly the same for x. Kal. Sep. One of the fragments of the metrical chronology of Wandelbert (A. D. 842) runs Idibus Hippotytum comitem Laurentius astris Pro Christo parili recipit certamine passum. The Greek calendar follows a very different arrangement of feasts from the Latin, but has the distinction no less clear. On the xith of August it joins Hippolytus with Laurentius and Sixtus, and the Menaea Magna for that day glorifies him with a pun, 'iTTirokvrov liTiTob^fxiov /3Xe7r<B, which is quite to our purpose. And again on the 29th January the Greek calendar has the passion of S. Hippolytus Papa, that is Bishop, with other priests and deacons, upon whom the prefect bound great stones, and t<5 /3v0g> rrjs daa<r<T7)s iveppitye. Nothing being said of the place of martyr- dom, it is worth observing that the tradition made it by the sea. So a metrical Greek calendar has on the 30th Jan. 'imrokvTov ttovtov TpiaKoarrj eicrave pevpa. The jEthiopic Martyrology has the drowning of Abulides Papa Bomanus on the 30th Jan. : so has the Coptic ; and again iEthiopic Hymns for the 30th and 31st have words which are thus rendered, "Hippolyte, pater noster, qui dignus fuisti ut appellareris doctor, mundi sacerdos." And so also the same Hieronymian 24 Quiriacus and Archillaus fell at polytus of Portus on xi. Kal. Sep. as Ostia not at Portus. well as on x. Kal. (It is remarkable 25 One MS. of Usuardus has, like that Baronius quotes Usuardus as fixing the Hieronymian Martyrology, S. Hip- Hippolytus on xi. Kal. Sep.)
