 Perpetua, however, had yet to taste more pain. She screamed as she was struck on the bone; then she took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit,...  Butler's Lives of the Saints - Pàgina 64per Alban Butler - 1995 - 293 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Marie Anne Mayeski - 1988 - 256 pàgines
...ribs, took the gladiator's trembling hand and guided it to her throat. Perhaps it was that so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not have been slain had she not herself willed it. 39. 0 brave and fortunate martyrs, truly called and... | |
 | Kari Elisabeth Børresen, Kari Vogt - 1993 - 374 pàgines
...stressed when Perpétua guides the gladiator's sword at the end of her Passio: "It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself was willing" (fortasse tantafemina aliter non potuisset occidi, quae... | |
 | Anne Jensen - 1996 - 384 pàgines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. (21/R)88 Albert Ehrhard has rightly said: "This document... | |
 | Karen Louise Jolly - 1997 - 588 pàgines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. Ah, most valiant and blessed martyrs! Truly are you... | |
 | Ralph Martin Novak - 2001 - 351 pàgines
...ribs, took the gladiator's trembling hand and guided it to her throat. Perhaps it was that so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not have been slain had she not herself willed it. O brave and fortunate martyrs, truly called and chosen... | |
 | Jessica Stern - 2009 - 402 pàgines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator, and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing."21 Christian martyrs' refusal to back down was seen... | |
 | Ross Shepard Kraemer - 2004 - 526 pàgines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. Ah, most valiant and blessed martyrs! Truly are you... | |
 | William C. Placher - 2005 - 492 pàgines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. Ah, most valiant and blessed martyrs! Truly are you... | |
 | Alban Butler, Paul Burns - 2007 - 660 pàgines
...sword struck Perpetua on a bone, and she screamed in agony, then guided the sword to the right place: "perhaps such a woman, feared as she was by the unclean...spirit, could not die unless she herself had willed it," the eyewitness comments. The bodies of the martyrs were buried in the Basilica Majorum in Carthage,... | |
 | Catharine Edwards, Reader in Classics and Ancient History Catharine Edwards - 2007 - 316 pàgines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. (Perp. 21.9-10) As in the case of the matron described... | |
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