Baring-Gould’s sources: By the Greeks on this day. Also the Modem Roman Martyrology, which, however, wrongly calls him martyr at Edessa; Baronius, who inserted the name, being misled by the Menaea; but it is clear from the Acts that he suffered at A£gse. Authority: — The ancient Greek Acts, written in a simple style, are not altogether trustworthy, for they have received insertions of fabulous matter. Later Greek Acts exist, composed evidently by some one who had never seen the older Acts, and the discrepancy hetween the two accounts is very wide. In one, the executioners, Alexander and Asterius, are converted and suffer. In the other Alexander and Asterius are not executioners at all, but bystanders. In one Thallelssus is thrown into the sea at iEgse, in the other he is cast overboard at Edessa. The torments are different in both. The ancient Acts tell the story of the governor adhering to his throne, the later Acts are silent on this point.] THALLELiEUS was a physician of Anazarbus, a city of Cilicia. On the promulgation of the decree of the Emperor Numerian against Christianity, he took refuge in an olive plantation, but was caught and dragged to ^Egae on the sea coast, where he was brought before the governor, Theodorus, who ordered a rope to be passed between the bone and tendon of his feet behind the ankle, and that Thallelaeus should be thus suspended, head downwards. The executioners, Alexander and Asterius, attempted to evade the performance of this cruel sentence, and were punished for their compassion with death.1 Then the 1 The story here has a strong touch of the grotesque. The Ancient Acts say “ Et iratus Praeses dixit; Ponite mihi sellam; ego ipse consurgam et terebrabo governor ordered the martyr to be cast into the sea, and when he scrambled on shore, bade his head be struck off.