Ecclesiastical History

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...there in hiding.

And leprosy came upon King Constantine like a crust original: tapast (տապաստ). While this word typically means a rug or carpet, in medical/hagiographic contexts it describes a thick, scaly skin condition or "covering" of leprosy., and the physicians were entirely unable to heal him.

The heretics In the legend of Saint Sylvester, these are often pagan priests or sorcerers who advise the Emperor. said, "It is impossible for you to be healed, unless you gather innocent children and their blood fills a basin; and while the blood is warm, you shall enter the basin naked and wash with the blood..."

...and the king, mounted [on a horse], went to the temple of idols in the Capitol original: kapeoghoyn (կապեողույն); referring to the Capitoline Hill in Rome..

...[with] his disciples, he fled to the mountain and was in hiding.

And leprosy came upon Constantine like a crust, and many physicians were entirely unable to heal him.

And the heretics said that it is impossible for you to be well and to be healed from that pain, unless you gather a thousand nursing children and you sit in the basin... and wash with the warm blood of the boys, and then you shall be well...

...and the king, having gone out, went to the Capitol original: kapitilion (կապետիլիոն). to the temple of idols.

As we can see, Ukhtanes has copied literally from the Synaxarion Armenian: Yaysmavurk. A collection of hagiographies.. The "Life" found in the Synaxarion is more similar to the Great Socrates, but certain phrases remind one of the Small Socrates These refer to the "Longer" and "Shorter" Armenian recensions (versions) of Socrates Scholasticus's Ecclesiastical History.; however, it can be said with certainty that it is taken from neither one nor the other. Father Sargsyan, in the preface, considered it superfluous to compare it with the Greek Synaxarion, and we, unfortunately, did not have the original Greek text at hand. For now, we suffice ourselves with only touching upon the question, but we will return to the same problem in the comparison with Khorenatsi Moses of Khoren (Movses Khorenatsi), the "Father of Armenian History," who also recounts the legend of Constantine and Sylvester..