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Imperator Constantinus infinita hominum multitudine congregata et undique infinitis sumptibus paene nuditate omnium ciuitatum collectis urbem sui participem nominis in parte Asiae, hoc est in Cilicia, interiecto mari, quod in illis finibus inter Asiam et Europam disterminat, aedificare coepit. Quadam uero nocte, cum innumerabiles operariorum exercitus per inmensam castrorum latitudinem in papilionibus dormirent, omnia ferramentorum genera, quibus diuersorum operum artifices uti consueuerant, subito quomodo sunt sublata nescitur.

皇帝君士坦丁聚集了無數的人，又從各處以無限的耗費搜羅，幾乎使各城一無所有，開始在亞細亞那一帶——就是在基利家——建造一座與他同名的城，那裡有海橫亙其間，在那些地界把亞細亞與歐羅巴分開。但在某一夜，當無數的工人大軍在遍及廣袤營地的帳棚中沉睡時，各種匠人作各樣工所慣用的鐵器，忽然都被取走了——如何取走，無人知曉。

The emperor Constantine, having gathered an infinite multitude of men, and having collected from every side, at infinite expense, almost to the nakedness of all the cities, began to build a city that should be a sharer of his name, in the part of Asia—that is, in Cilicia—with the sea lying between, which in those parts separates Asia and Europe. But on a certain night, when innumerable armies of workmen were sleeping in their tents throughout the immense breadth of the camp, all kinds of iron tools which the craftsmen of various works were accustomed to use were suddenly carried off—how, no one knows.

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De quorum subitanea et occulta sublatione cum primo mane ad ipsum imperatorem Constantinum plurimi operatores maestitia molestati querimonium detulissent, rex consequenter inquirit ab eis dicens: \'Si alias res de castris subtractas audistis?\' \'Nullas, aiunt, exceptis omnibus operum ferramentis.\' Tum deinde rex praecipit inquiens ad eos: \'Ite citius et circumeuntes ultra citra per maritimas regionum oras conterminarum lustrate.

當早晨許多工人因悲傷困擾，向皇帝君士坦丁本人提出申訴，論到那些器具忽然隱密地不見時，王便詢問他們說：「你們可曾聽見營中還有別的東西被取走？」他們說：「沒有，除了所有作工的鐵器以外。」於是王隨即吩咐他們說：「你們速速去，到處往來，巡查鄰近各地的海濱。

When concerning their sudden and hidden removal very many of the workmen, troubled with grief, had brought a complaint to the emperor Constantine himself early in the morning, the king accordingly inquired of them, saying: 'Have you heard of any other things being taken away from the camp?' 'None,' they say, 'except all the iron tools of the works.' Then thereupon the king gave command, saying to them: 'Go quickly, and going about hither and thither, survey the maritime shores of the bordering regions.

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Et si in aliquo agrorum loco forte uestra reppereritis ferramenta, ibidem interim ea custodite et illa huc non reportetis, sed ad me aliquos ex uobis reuerti facite, ut pro certo scire possim de ferramentorum repertione.\' Quibus auditis operarii obsequuntur sermonibus a rege dictis et exeuntes, sicuti fuerant iussi, lustratis hinc et inde ponto uicinis agrorum terminis, et ecce in parte Europae ultra mare ferramentorum congeriem repperiunt inter duo maria in uno congregatam loco. Quo reperto ad regem ex eis aliqui ueniunt remissi et inuenta nuntiant ferramenta in tali loco. Quo conperto rex continuo tubicines per castrorum circuitum tubis iubet canere et exercitum mouere castra dicens:

「你們若偶然在田野某處找到你們的鐵器，就暫且把它們存在那裡，不要搬回這裡，乃要叫你們中間幾個人回到我這裡，使我可以確實知道器具被尋見的事。」工人聽見這些話，便照王所說的去行，照所吩咐的出去，巡查了海邊兩側鄰近的田野，看哪，在海那邊歐羅巴那一帶，他們在兩海之間的一處找到一堆聚在一起的鐵器。尋見之後，他們中間幾個被打發回來，到王那裡，稟報器具在某處被尋見。王得知此事，立刻吩咐營地四圍的號手吹號，並下令拔營移動軍隊，對軍隊說：

And if perchance in some place of the fields you find your iron tools, keep them there meanwhile and do not carry them back here, but cause some of you to return to me, that I may know for certain about the finding of the tools.' Having heard these things, the workmen obey the words spoken by the king, and going out, as they had been commanded, having surveyed the bordering fields near the sea on this side and that, behold, in the part of Europe beyond the sea they find a heap of iron tools gathered together in one place between two seas. When this was found, some of them, sent back, come to the king and announce that the tools were found in such a place. When this was learned, the king at once commands the trumpeters around the circuit of the camp to sound with their trumpets, and to move the army, saying to it:

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<Emigremus hinc ad aedificandam ciuitatem in loco nobis diuinitus designato.\' Simulque praeparatis cum uniuerso exercitu nauibus ad locum repertorum transfretauit ferramentorum, quem uidelicet locum in tali eorum translatione cognouit sibi a deo praeparatum designari. In quo continuo ciuitatem condidit, quae conposito nomine ex proprio eius uocabulo et appellatiua ciuitatis graeca nominatione Constantinopolis uocitatur, ut conditoris uocamen in priore talis inhaereat conpositionis parte. Haec de situ et conditione illius regiae urbis discripta sufficiant. III. DE ILLA ECCLESIA, IN QVA CRVX DOMINI HABETVR.

「讓我們從此地遷往那為我們由神所指定的地方去建造一座城。」同時，當船隻備妥後，他便率領全軍渡海前往發現鐵器的那地——正是那因尋得鐵器而使他明白乃是神為他所預備、所標定的地方。他立即在那裡建立了一座城，這城以他自己的名字與「城」的希臘通稱合成而得名，稱為君士坦丁堡（Constantinopolis），好使建造者之名置於這合成詞的前半部。關於那王城之地理位置與境況，所記述的已足夠。第三章：論那存放主十字架的教會。

'Let us depart hence to build a city in the place divinely appointed for us.' And at the same time, when ships had been made ready, he crossed over with his whole army to the place where the iron tools had been found—the very place which, by such a discovery of them, he understood to have been prepared and marked out for him by God. There he forthwith founded a city, which by a name compounded from his own name and from the appellative Greek designation of a city is called Constantinople, so that the name of the founder might cling to the first part of such a compound. Let what has been set down concerning the site and condition of that royal city suffice. III. CONCERNING THAT CHURCH IN WHICH THE CROSS OF THE LORD IS KEPT.

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Ceterum de celeberrima eiusdem ciuitatis rotunda mirae magnitudinis lapidea ecclesia silere non debemus. Quae, ut sanctus refert Arculfus, qui eam non breui frequentauit tempore, ab imo fundamentorum in tribus consurgens parietibus triplex super illos altius sublimata rotundissima et nimis pulchra simplici consummatur culminata camara. Haec arcibus suffulta grandibus inter singulos supra memoratos parietes latum habet spatium uel ad inhabitandum uel etiam ad exorandum Dominum aptum et commodum.

此外，我們不可緘默不提那同城最著名、規模驚人的圓形石造教會。正如聖亞庫夫所述——他曾長期常至此地——它從地基之底築於三道牆上，呈三重，向上更高聳起，極其圓整且異常美麗，以單一拱頂作為頂蓋而完工。它由巨大的拱券支撐，在上述各牆之間有寬闊的空間，無論是供居住，或是供向主祈禱，都甚為合宜便利。

Moreover, we ought not to be silent concerning the most renowned round stone church of that same city, of marvellous size. As holy Arculf relates—who frequented it for no short time—it rises from the very bottom of its foundations upon three walls, and being triple, lifted up still higher above them, most perfectly round and exceedingly beautiful, it is completed with a single vaulted roof. Supported upon great arches, between each of the aforementioned walls it has a wide space, suitable and convenient either for dwelling in or even for praying to the Lord.

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Interioris domus aquilonali in parte pergrande et ualde pulchrum monstratur armarium, in quo capsa habetur recondita lignea, quae similiter ligneo supercluditur operculo, in quo illud salutare habetur reconditum crucis lignum, in quo noster saluator pro salute humani generis suspensus passus est. Quae uidelicet praedicabilis capsa, ut sanctus refert Arculfus, in tribus continuis diebus post expletum annum super altare aureum cum tali pretioso eleuatur thesauro. Quod utique altarium in eadem habetur rotunda ecclesia duos longitudinis habens cubitos et unum latitudinis.

在內部建築的北側，陳列著一個極大且異常美麗的櫥櫃，其中存放著一個木製箱子，同樣以木蓋蓋住；箱中存放著那救恩的十字架之木，我們的救主為了人類的救恩曾被懸掛其上並受苦。正如聖亞庫夫所述，這值得稱頌的箱子，連同這般珍貴的寶物，在滿一年之後的連續三日內，被高舉於一座金壇之上。這座壇就立於那同一座圓形教會中，長二肘、寬一肘。

In the northern part of the inner building there is shown a very large and exceedingly beautiful cabinet, in which is kept a wooden chest, which is likewise closed over with a wooden lid; and in it is kept that saving wood of the cross, on which our Saviour, for the salvation of the human race, was hung and suffered. This praiseworthy chest, as holy Arculf relates, is lifted up upon a golden altar, together with such a precious treasure, on three continuous days after a full year has been completed. This altar, indeed, stands in that same round church, being two cubits in length and one in breadth.

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In ternis, inquam, tantummodo anniuersariis sibi succedentibus diebus dominica crux supra altare eleuata ponitur, hoc est in caena Domini, qua die imperator et exercitus militum ecclesiam intrantes et ad illud accedentes altare aperta illa sacrosancta capsella salutarem osculantur crucem. Primus ante omnes imperator orbis illam inclinato osculatur uultu, deinde iuxta condicionum uel aetatum ordinem unus post unum accedens honorabile osculatur patibulum. Proinde crastina die, hoc est sexta feria ante pascha, reginae, matronae et omnes populi mulieres supra obseruato memorato ordine accedunt cum omni ueneratione osculantes.

我說，唯獨在三個相續的週年之日，主的十字架才被高舉置於壇上——即在主的晚餐日（聖週四），那日皇帝與兵士的隊伍進入教會、走近那壇，當那至聖的小箱被打開後，便親吻那救恩的十字架。首先，在眾人之前，全地的皇帝俯首而吻；然後按身分或年齡的次序，一個接一個地走近親吻那可敬的刑架。接著次日——即逾越節前的第六日（受難日）——后妃、貴婦及百姓中所有的婦女，按上述所守的次序前來，懷著全然的敬虔親吻之。

On three successive yearly days only, I say, the cross of the Lord is placed lifted up above the altar—that is, on the Supper of the Lord (Maundy Thursday), on which day the emperor and the host of soldiers, entering the church and approaching that altar, kiss the saving cross when that most sacred little chest has been opened. First, before all, the emperor of the world kisses it with bowed face; then, according to the order of ranks or of ages, one after another approaching kisses the honourable gibbet. Then on the next day—that is, the sixth feria (Good Friday) before the Pasch—the queens, the matrons, and all the women of the people approach in the said observed order, kissing it with all veneration.

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Tertia die, hoc est sabbato paschali, episcopus et uniuersus post eum clerus cum timore et tremore et omni honorificentia accedunt ordinatim uictoriale osculantes lignum in sua positum capsa, finitisque sanctis et laetificis talibus sacrosanctae crucis osculationibus illa uenerabilis capsa supercluditur et ad suum cum tali honorifico thesauro reportatur armarium.

在第三日——即逾越節的安息日（聖週六）——主教與在他之後的全體聖職人員，懷著敬畏戰兢與一切尊崇，依次前來，親吻那置於箱中得勝的木；當這對至聖十字架的聖潔而歡欣的親吻禮完成後，那可敬的箱子便被蓋上，連同這般可敬的寶物，被送回它的櫥櫃。

On the third day—that is, the Paschal Sabbath (Holy Saturday)—the bishop and all the clergy after him approach in order, with fear and trembling and all reverence, kissing the victorious wood placed in its chest; and when these holy and joyful kissings of the most sacred cross are finished, that venerable chest is closed over and carried back, together with such an honourable treasure, to its cabinet.

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Sed et hoc non neglegenter intuendum, quod non duo, sed tria ibidem crucis habeantur breuia ligna, hoc est transuersum lignum et longum incisum et in duas aequas diuisum partes, e quibus tripertitis honorificabilibus lignis, quando illa aperitur capsa, miri odoris fragrantia ac si omnium florum inibi collectorum mirabili plena suauitate exoritur satians et laetificans omnes in propatulo intra illius ecclesiae parietes interiores positos, qui eodem temporis spatio intrantes stant;

但這一點也不可漫不經心地略過：那裡所存放的並非兩段，而是三段短短的十字架之木——即橫木，以及被切割並分為兩等分的縱木。當那箱子被打開時，從這三段可敬的木中，發出一股奇異的香氣，彷彿充滿了採集於此的一切花朵那奇妙的甘甜，使凡進入後此刻立於教會那內牆之中、敞開之處的眾人都得飽足與歡欣；

But this too is not to be observed carelessly: that there are kept there not two, but three short pieces of the cross's wood—that is, the transverse piece, and the long piece cut and divided into two equal parts. From these three honourable pieces of wood, when that chest is opened, a fragrance of marvellous odour arises, as though full of the wonderful sweetness of all flowers gathered there, satisfying and gladdening all who are placed in the open within those inner walls of the church, who at that same span of time stand having entered;

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nam de nodis eorundem trinalium lignorum liquor quidam odorifer quasi in similitudinem olei expressus talem facit uniuersos intrantes ex diuersis gentibus adgregatos supra memoratam sentire suauissimi odoris fragrantiam. Cuius uidelicet liquoris si etiam paruula quaedam stillula supra aegrotantes inponatur. qualicumque languore uel morbo molestati plenam recuperant sanitatem. Sed de his ista sufficiant discripsisse. IIII. DE GEORGIO MARTVRE.

因為從那三段木的節結中，流出某種芬芳的液體，彷彿如同油般被壓榨而出，使凡進入者——由各邦各國聚集而來的眾人——都嗅到上述那最甘甜香氣的芬芳。實在說，這液體若僅有一小滴點在病人身上，那麼無論他們受何種虛弱或疾病所苦，都能完全恢復健康。但關於這些事，所述已足。第四章：論殉道者喬治。

for from the knots of those three pieces of wood a certain fragrant liquid, as it were pressed out in the likeness of oil, makes all who have entered—gathered from diverse nations—perceive that aforementioned fragrance of most sweet odour. Indeed, if even some tiny little drop of this liquid be placed upon the sick, then, by whatever weakness or disease they were afflicted, they recover full health. But let it suffice to have described these things concerning these matters. IV. CONCERNING GEORGE THE MARTYR.

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Arculfus homo sanctus, qui nobis haec omnia de dominica cruce narrauit, quam ipse propriis conspexit oculis et osculatus est, aliam nobis de aliquo confessore Georgio nomine relationem contulit, quam in Constantinopoli urbe a quibusdam expertis didicit ciuibus, qui hoc modo narrare soliti eidem dicebant: In Diospoli ciuitate cuiusdam confessoris Georgii in quadam domu statuta marmorea in columna, contra quam alligatus persecutionis tempore flagellatus est, formula depicta est; qui tamen post flagellationem e uinculis absolutus multis uixit annis.

亞庫夫是一位聖潔之人，他向我們述說了關於主十字架的這一切事，那些事他親眼目睹並親吻過；他也向我們帶來另一段關於一位名叫喬治的宣信者的記述，這是他在君士坦丁堡城從某些有見識的市民那裡所聽聞的；那些人慣於如此述說，對他說道：在丟斯波利城，某座房屋中立著一根大理石柱，逼迫時期一位名叫喬治的宣信者被綁在柱上受鞭打；柱上繪有他的肖像。然而他在受鞭打後，從捆綁中被釋放，又活了許多年。

Arculf, a holy man, who related to us all these things concerning the cross of the Lord, which he himself beheld with his own eyes and kissed, brought us also another account concerning a certain confessor named George, which he learned in the city of Constantinople from certain knowledgeable citizens, who, accustomed to relate it in this manner, were saying to him: In the city of Diospolis there is, set up in a certain house, a marble column, against which, bound in the time of persecution, a certain confessor George was scourged; upon it his likeness is depicted. He, however, after the scourging, being loosed from his bonds, lived many years.

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Quadam uero die, cum quidam duricors et incredulus homuncio in equo sedens eandem intrasset domum, eandemque uidens marmoream columnam ab his, qui ibidem inerant, interrogat dicens: (Cuius est haec imago in marmorea columna formata?\' Quibus respondentibus et dicentibus: , Georgii confessoris haec figura est, qui ad hanc uinculatus et mastigatus est columnam\': quo audito ille stolidissimus homunculus ualde iratus contra ing(ensibilem rem sancti confessoris formulam instigante diabolo lancea percussit. Quae uidelicet eiusdem aduersarii lancea quasi per globum niuis mollem mirum in modum facile penetrans lapideam illam perforauit columnam exteriore parte eius.

如今某日，一個心硬不信的小人騎在馬上進了那同一座房屋，看見那同一根大理石柱，便問在場的人說：「這大理石柱上所刻的這肖像是誰的？」他們回答說：「這是宣信者喬治的形像，他曾被綁在這柱上受鞭打。」那最愚昧的小人聽見後勃然大怒，在魔鬼的唆使下，用他的長矛刺向那無知覺之物，即這聖潔宣信者的肖像。那仇敵的長矛奇妙地、輕易地穿透那石柱，彷彿穿過一團柔軟的雪球，從其外側將柱子刺穿。

Now on a certain day, when a certain hard-hearted and unbelieving little fellow, sitting on a horse, had entered that same house, and seeing that same marble column, asks those who were present there, saying: 'Whose is this image formed on the marble column?' When they answered and said: 'This is the figure of George the confessor, who was bound and scourged at this column'—on hearing which, that most stupid little fellow, exceedingly enraged, at the devil's instigation struck with his lance against the insensible thing, the likeness of the holy confessor. And that lance of the adversary, penetrating that stone column easily and in a marvellous manner, as though through a soft ball of snow, pierced it through on its outer part.

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Cuius ferrum interius haerens retentum est nec unquam quomodo retrahi potuit, hastile autem eius ad sancti confessoris conlisum marmoream imagunculam exterius confractum est. Illius quoque miselli homuncionis equus, in quo sedebat, eodem momento sub eo in pauimento domus cecidit mortuus, ipse autem simul misellus in terram cadens manus in illam marmoream misit columnam eiusque digiti quasi in polline uel luto intrantes in eadem inpressi inhaeserunt columna.

矛的鐵尖卡牢在內，被留在那裡，無論如何永遠無法抽出；但矛桿撞在聖潔宣信者那大理石的小肖像上，在外側折斷了。那可憐小人所騎的馬，也在同一時刻倒斃於他身下、跌在房屋的地面上；而他自己這可憐人也同時跌倒在地，把手按在那大理石柱上，他的手指彷彿插入細麵粉或泥土般，陷入並黏牢在那同一根柱子裡。

Its iron point, sticking fast within, was held there and could in no way ever be drawn back; but its shaft, dashed against the marble little image of the holy confessor, was broken off on the outside. The horse also of that wretched little fellow, on which he was sitting, at that same moment fell dead under him onto the pavement of the house; and he himself, the wretch, falling at the same time to the ground, put his hands upon that marble column, and his fingers, entering as if into fine flour or mud, became fixed and stuck fast in that same column.

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Quod uidens miser, qui retrahere denos duarum digitos manuum ad se non poterat in marmorea sancti confessoris inhaerentes formula conligatos et insertos, nomen dei aeterni eiusdemque confessoris agens paenitudinem inuocat et, ut ab eodem absolueretur uinculo, inlacrimatus precatur. Quam eius lacrimosam paenitentiam misericors deus suscipiens, qui non uult peccatoris mortem, sed ut conuertatur et uiuat, non solum ab illo praesenti marmoreo uisibili absoluit uinculo, sed etiam a peccatorum inuisibilibus alligamentis fide saluatum subueniens misericorditer liberauit.

那可憐人見此情景——他無法把自己雙手的十指從那聖潔宣信者的大理石肖像中、被黏住插入的境地收回——便悔改認罪，呼求永生神與那同一位宣信者之名，且流淚祈求，願自己從那捆綁中得釋。慈悲的神接納了他這流淚的悔改——祂不願罪人死亡，乃願他回轉而存活——不僅使他從眼前可見的大理石捆綁中得釋，更施恩相助，因信使他得救，將他從罪那不可見的捆綁中憐憫地釋放出來。

Seeing this, the wretch—who could not draw back to himself the ten fingers of his two hands, fastened and inserted in the marble likeness of the holy confessor—doing penance, invokes the name of the eternal God and of that same confessor, and, weeping, prays that he might be loosed from that bond. His tearful penitence the merciful God received—He who wills not the death of a sinner, but that he should be converted and live—and not only loosed him from that present, visible, marble bond, but also, coming to his aid in mercy, set him free, saved by faith, from the invisible bonds of his sins.

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Hinc itaque manifeste ostenditur, quantae et qualis fuerit honorificentiae apud Dominum Georgius suus inter tormenta confessor, cuius thoracidam in re natura inpenetrabili penetrabilem potentia fecit lanceamque aduersarii aeque naturaliter inpenetrabilem mirabiliter effecit penetrabilem digitosque eiusdem homunculi infirmos in eadem natura inpenetrabili re potenter penetrales fecit, quos in marmore uinculatos primule et ipse durus retrahere non potuit, sed eodem momento ualde perterritus et exinde mitigatus paenitens deo miserante retraxit.

因此，這便清楚顯明：他的宣信者喬治在折磨之中、在主面前所享有的尊榮何等大、何等的尊貴：神以大能使他那雕刻的肖像，在本性不可穿透之物中成為可穿透的；又奇妙地使那仇敵的長矛——同樣本性不可穿透——成為可穿透的；並大有能力地使那同一小人軟弱的手指，在那同一本性不可穿透之物中變得可穿入——那些黏在大理石中的手指，起初連那剛硬之人自己都無法抽回，但就在同一時刻，他大為驚恐、隨後軟化、悔改認罪，藉著神的憐憫便將它們抽了回來。

Hence, therefore, it is plainly shown how great and of what kind was the honour that George his confessor enjoyed amid his torments in the sight of the Lord: whose carven image, by its power, He made penetrable in a thing impenetrable by nature; and the lance of the adversary, equally impenetrable by nature, He marvellously rendered penetrable; and the weak fingers of that same little fellow He powerfully made penetrating in that same thing impenetrable by nature—fingers which, fastened in the marble, at first even that hard man could not draw back, but at that same moment, greatly terrified and thereafter softened, doing penance, by God's mercy he drew them back.

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Mirum dictu, usque in hodiernum diem eadem bis quinorum eius uestigia digitulorum apparent usque ad radices in marmorea insertorum columna, in quorum loco sanctus Arculfus suos denos proprios inseruit digitos similiter ad radices usque intrantes. Eiusdem quoque homulli sanguis equi, cuius coxa in pauimento mortui cadentis in duas confracta est partes, nullo modo ablui aut deleri potuit, sed indelebilis in pauimento domus usque ad nostra permanet tempora idem equinus cruor.

說來奇妙，直到今日，他那十根小指的痕跡仍顯現在大理石柱上，深陷至根部；聖亞庫夫曾把自己的十指插入該處，同樣深入至根部。那同一小人之馬的血——那馬倒斃於地面時，其大腿斷為兩段——也無論如何無法被洗去或抹除，反倒那同一馬血至今仍不可磨滅地留在房屋的地面上。

Marvellous to tell, even to this present day there appear the marks of those ten little fingers of his, inserted right down to the roots in the marble column; in the place of which holy Arculf inserted his own ten fingers, likewise entering right down to the roots. The blood, too, of the horse of that same little fellow—whose haunch was broken into two parts as it fell dead upon the pavement—could in no way be washed away or wiped out, but that same equine gore remains indelible upon the pavement of the house even to our times.

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Aliam quoque de eodem Georgio confessore certam relationem nobis sanctus Arculfus intimauit, quam ab expertis quibusdam satis idoneis narratoribus in supra memorata stantinopolitana urbe indubitanter didicit, qui hoc modo de illo sancto confessore pronuntiare soliti erant dicentes: Quidam homunculus saecularis Diospolim ciuitatem in equo sedens ingressus eo in tempore, quo ad expeditionem faciendam multa populorum milia undique conueniebant collecta, illam accedens intrauit in domum, in qua supra memorata marmorea extat columna in se sancti confessoris Georgii habens depictam imaginem, ad quam quasi ad praesentem Georgium loqui coepit dicens:

聖亞庫夫也向我們傳述了另一段關於同一位宣信者喬治的確實記述，這是他在上述君士坦丁堡城從某些十分可靠、親身經歷其事的敘述者那裡毫無疑問地聽聞的；他們慣於如此宣講那位聖潔的宣信者，說道：某個屬世的小人騎在馬上，於眾百姓萬千從四面聚集要出征之時，進了丟斯波利城；他走近進入那座立著上述大理石柱、柱上繪有聖潔宣信者喬治肖像的房屋；他便對著那肖像，彷彿喬治親自臨在般，開始說話道：

Holy Arculf also imparted to us another sure account concerning the same George the confessor, which he learned without doubt from certain sufficiently fit narrators, who had themselves experienced it, in the aforesaid city of Constantinople; who were accustomed to declare concerning that holy confessor in this manner, saying: A certain worldly little fellow, sitting on a horse, entered the city of Diospolis at that time when many thousands of peoples were gathering together from all sides to make an expedition; approaching, he entered into the house in which stands the aforementioned marble column, having depicted on it the image of the holy confessor George; and to it, as though to George present in person, he began to speak, saying:

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(Me tibi, Georgio confessori, et meum commendo equum, et ut per orationum uirtutem tuarum ab uniuersis bellorum atque morborum aquarumque periculis liberati ambo ad hanc usque urbem post expeditionis tempus incolumes reuersi perueniamus, et si tibi ita deus misericors nostram reuersionem donauerit prosperam secundum optionem nostrae paruitatis, ego hunc meum, quem ualde amo, ippum tibi pro munere donandum offeram in conspectu tuae adsignaturus formulae.\' Quis sermunculis ocius terminatis domum egressus inter exercitus multitudinem cum ceteris contubernalibus commeans idem homuncio in expeditionis comitatu emigrat, qui post multa et diuersa bellica pericula, inter quae misella plurimorum milia homunculorum constituta disperierant, ipse in eodem suo sedens dilecto equo ab omnibus infestis casibus iuxta supra memoratam talem exemptus commendationem christicolae Georgio deo condonante ad Diospolim prospere reuertitur illamque domum, in qua eiusdem sancti confessoris habebatur imago, secum deferens aurum in equi pretium sui gaudenter intrat sanctumque Georgium ac si praesentem adloquitur dicens:

「宣信者喬治啊，我把自己與我的馬都託付給你，願藉你禱告的能力，使我們二者從一切戰爭、疾病與水患的危險中得蒙拯救，在出征之後平安無恙地返回此城；倘若慈悲的神照我們卑微的心願，這樣賜我們順利歸來，我必獻上我這匹我深愛的馬作為禮物給你，在你的肖像面前將它歸與你。」這些小小的話語迅速說完後，那小人便走出房屋，與其他帳幕同伴一同行在軍隊之中，隨出征隊伍啟程；他歷經許多種種的戰爭危險——在其中身處戰陣的成千上萬可憐小人都喪亡了——他自己卻騎著那同一匹他所愛的馬，照上述的託付，藉那敬拜基督的喬治，蒙神所賜，從一切敵對的災禍中得脫，順利地返回丟斯波利；他帶著為他的馬所值之金，歡然進入那座存有同一位聖潔宣信者肖像的房屋，並對著聖喬治彷彿祂親臨般說道：

'To you, George the confessor, I commend both myself and my horse, that by the power of your prayers we may both, delivered from all the perils of wars and diseases and waters, return safe and sound to this city after the time of the expedition; and if the merciful God shall thus grant you a prosperous return for us according to the wish of our littleness, I will offer this my horse, which I greatly love, to be given to you as a gift, assigning it in the sight of your image.' When these little words were quickly ended, that little fellow, going out of the house, journeying among the multitude of the army with his other tent-companions, sets out in the company of the expedition; who, after many and diverse perils of war—amid which many thousands of wretched little men, set in the midst, had perished—he himself, sitting on that same beloved horse of his, delivered from all hostile mishaps according to the aforesaid commendation through the Christ-worshipper George, by God's gift returns prosperously to Diospolis; and carrying with him gold for the price of his horse, he gladly enters that house in which was the image of that same holy confessor, and addresses holy George as though present, saying:

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Sancte confessor. deo aeterno grates refero, qui me per tuae celsitudinis firmitudinem orationis sospitem reduxit. Propterea hos tibi uiginti solidos auri adfero equi pretium mei, quem tibi primule commendatum mihi usque in hodiernum conseruasti diem.\' Haec dicens supra discriptum auri pondus ante pedes sancti formulae confessoris deponit plus equum amans quam aurum et egressus foras ingeniculatione expleta tale iumentum supra sedens ad emigrandum instigat quidem, sed nullo modo moueri potuit. Quod ille homunculus uidens discendit de equo reuersusque domum intrat, alios decem adfert solidos inquiens:

「聖潔的宣信者啊，我感謝永生的神，祂藉你崇高禱告的堅定，使我平安歸來。因此我獻給你這二十枚金幣，作為我馬的價，這馬起先託付給你，你已為我保守至今日。」他說著，便把上述的金子放在聖潔宣信者肖像的腳前，愛馬過於愛金；他走到外面，跪拜完畢，坐在那牲口上催它前行——卻無論如何都不能使它移動。那小人見此，便從馬上下來，回身進屋，又帶來另外十枚金幣，說道：

'Holy confessor, I give thanks to the eternal God, who through the steadfastness of your exalted prayer brought me back safe. Therefore I bring you these twenty gold solidi as the price of my horse, which, at first commended to you, you have preserved for me unto this present day.' Saying this, he lays down the aforesaid weight of gold before the feet of the holy confessor's image, loving the horse more than the gold; and going outside, his act of kneeling finished, sitting upon that beast he urges it to depart—but in no way could it be moved. Seeing which, that little fellow dismounts from the horse, and returning enters the house, brings ten other solidi, saying:

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Sancte confessor, mansuetus quidem mihi equiti tutor in expeditione inter pericula fuisti, sed tamen, ut uideo, durus et auarus es in commercio equi.\' Haec dicens X super XX solidos adiciens ad sanctum dicit confessorem: Et hos tibi addo solidos, ut mihi placabilis fias et meum ad ambulandum resoluas equum.\' Hoc dicto egressus iterum ascendens equum ad meandum incitat, qui quasi infixus in eodem stabat loco nec etiam unum poterat mouere pedem. Quid plura?

「聖潔的宣信者啊，在出征的危難中，你對我這騎者實在是溫和的保護者；然而，照我所見，你在這馬的交易上卻是剛硬而貪婪的。」他說著，在那二十枚金幣之上又加十枚，對那聖潔的宣信者說：「這些金幣我再加給你，好叫你向我息怒，釋放我的馬使牠能行走。」說完，他走出去，再次上馬催牠前行；但馬卻彷彿釘在那同一地方，連一步都不能移動。還用多說嗎？

'Holy confessor, you were indeed to me, a horseman, a gentle protector amid the perils of the expedition; yet, as I see, you are hard and grasping in the bargaining over the horse.' Saying this, adding ten upon the twenty solidi, he says to the holy confessor: 'And these solidi I add to you, that you may be appeased toward me and may release my horse to walk.' This said, going out, again mounting the horse, he urges it to move; but it stood as though fixed in that same place, nor could it move even one foot. What more?

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Post equum ascensum discensumque per quatuor singulas uices intrans domum decem secum solidos adferens et ad inmobilem reuersus equum iterum in domum regressus huc atque illuc currebat et tamdiu illius ippus nulla instigatione remoueri poterat, usquequo numerus solidorum LX adinpleretur congregatorum. Tum deinde supra commemoratum repetens sermonem de sancti confessoris mansueta humanitate et tuta in expeditione custodia et de eius quasi duritia uel etiam in commerciis auaritia commemorans, quae talia uerba, ut fertur, per quaternales singulas uices in domum reuersus repetebat, ad ultimum hoc modo sanctum adloquitur Georgium dicens:

他四次分別上馬下馬，每次都帶十枚金幣進屋，又回到那不動的馬旁，再次進入屋內，來回奔走；那馬無論如何催趕都不能移動，直到所聚集金幣之數達到六十枚為止。此後，他重述上述關於那聖潔宣信者在出征中溫和的仁慈與安全的保護、以及他在交易上顯出的剛硬甚至貪婪的話——據說這些話他在四次回到屋內時每次都重述——最後他便這樣對聖喬治說道：

After mounting and dismounting the horse four separate times, entering the house, bringing ten solidi with him each time, and returning to the immovable horse, again going back into the house, he ran here and there; and so long was that horse of his unable to be moved by any urging, until the number of gathered solidi reached sixty. Then thereafter, repeating the aforementioned speech concerning the holy confessor's gentle kindness and safe guardianship in the expedition, and concerning his apparent hardness and even greed in bargaining—which words, as is reported, he repeated on each of the four separate occasions on returning into the house—at the last he addresses holy George in this manner, saying:

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\'Sancte confessor, nunc tuam pro certo cognosco uoluntatem. Hoc itaque iuxta id, quod desideras, totum auri pondus, uidelicet LX solidos, tibi munus offero, ippum quoque meum; quem tibi prius promiseram post expeditionem condonandum, nunc tibi, licet inuisibilibus alligamentis uinculatum, condono, sed mox, ut credo, resoluendum per tuam in deo honorificentiam.J Hoc terminato sermone egressus domum eodem horae momento absolutum repperit ippum, quem secum deducens in domum sancto donatum adsignauit confessori in conspectu imaginis ipsius indeque laetabundus Christum magnificans discessit.

「聖潔的宣信者啊，如今我確知你的心意了。因此，照你所願，我把這全部分量的金子作為禮物獻給你，即六十枚金幣，連同我的馬；這馬我起先曾應許在出征後贈與你，如今我便贈給你——雖然牠仍被不可見的捆綁所縛——但我相信不久必藉你在神裡的尊榮而得釋。」這番話說完，他走出屋外，就在那一刻發現馬已被鬆開；他便牽著馬進入屋內，在聖潔宣信者的肖像面前把牠作為禮物歸與祂；於是他歡然而去，尊大基督。

'Holy confessor, now I know for certain your will. Therefore, according to what you desire, I offer you the whole weight of gold as a gift, namely sixty solidi, and also my horse; which I had first promised to bestow upon you after the expedition, now I bestow upon you—though it be bound with invisible bonds—but soon, as I believe, to be loosed through your honour in God.' When this speech was ended, going out of the house, at that same moment of the hour he found the horse loosed; and leading it with him into the house, he assigned it as a gift to the holy confessor in the sight of his image; and thence, rejoicing, magnifying Christ, he departed.

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Hinc manifeste colligitur, quod omne, quodcunque Domino consecratur, siue homo erit siue animal, iuxta id quod in Leuitico scriptum est libro, nullo modo redimi possit aut mutari. Nam si quis mutauerit, et quod mutatum est et pro quo mutatum est, sanctificabitur Domino et non redimetur. V. DE IMAGINE SANCTAE MARIAE. Arculfus saepe memoratus et de sanctae Mariae matris Domini thoracida certam nobis relationem, quam in Constantinopolitana urbe ab expertis quibusdam testibus didicit, indubitanter enarrauit inquiens:

由此可清楚得知：凡分別歸與主的一切，無論是人或牲畜，照《利未記》所記，都絕不可被贖回或更換。因為若有人更換它，那被換的與用來換的，都要歸聖與主，不可贖回。第五章：論聖母馬利亞的肖像。屢次提及的亞庫夫也毫無疑問地向我們述說了一段關於主之母聖馬利亞畫像板的確實記述，這是他在君士坦丁堡城從某些有經驗的見證人那裡所聽聞的，說道：

Hence it is plainly gathered that everything whatsoever that is consecrated to the Lord, whether it be a man or an animal, according to what is written in the book of Leviticus, can in no way be redeemed or changed. For if anyone shall have changed it, both that which was changed and that for which it was changed shall be sanctified to the Lord and shall not be redeemed. V. CONCERNING THE IMAGE OF SAINT MARY. The oft-mentioned Arculf also related to us, without doubt, a sure account concerning a panel-image of Saint Mary, the mother of the Lord, which he learned in the city of Constantinople from certain experienced witnesses, saying:

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In eadem metropolitana ciuitate imago beatae Mariae in breui tabula figurata lignea in pariete cuiusdam domus suspensa pendebat, de qua cum quidam stolidus et duricors homo percunctaretur, cuius esset propria, a quodam respondente didicit, quod esset sanctae Mariae semper uirginis figura faciei.

在那同一座大都會城中，有一幅蒙福馬利亞的肖像，繪於一塊小木板上，懸掛在某座房屋的牆上；關於這肖像，當某個愚昧而心硬的人查問這是誰的肖像時，他從一位回答者那裡得知，這是常存童貞的聖馬利亞之面容肖像。

In that same metropolitan city, an image of blessed Mary, figured on a short wooden panel, hung suspended on the wall of a certain house; concerning which, when a certain stupid and hard-hearted man inquired whose likeness it was, he learned from one who answered that it was the likeness of the face of Saint Mary, ever-virgin.

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\'Quod audiens ille Iudaeus incredulus diabolo instigante eandem de pariete ualde iratus tulit imaginem et ad uicinam cucurrit domum, ubi humana stercora per longarum foramina tabularum egesta supra sedentium uentribus degeri solent, ibidemque ob Christi ex Maria nati dehonorationem imaginem eius per foramen super humanum stercus inferius iacens proiecit et ipse supersedens per idem foramen aluum purgans proprii stercus uentris super thoracidam beatae Mariae paulo ante inibi depositam dimittens stolidissime agens effudit et post turpissimam illam uentris purgationem ille infelicissimus discessit homo.

「那不信的猶太人聽見後，在魔鬼的唆使下，大為震怒，把那同一幅肖像從牆上取下，跑到鄰近的一座房屋，那裡是人們從長木板的孔洞中排泄、把人糞積存於坐者腹下之處；他在那裡，為了羞辱由馬利亞所生的基督，把祂的肖像從孔洞中扔在下面的人糞上，而他自己坐在其上，從那同一孔洞中清瀉其腹，將自己腹中之糞排洩在稍早放在那裡的蒙福馬利亞畫像板上，行此最愚昧之事，將之傾瀉而出；在如此最污穢地清瀉其腹之後，那最不幸之人便離去了。

'Hearing this, that unbelieving Jew, at the devil's instigation, in great wrath took down that same image from the wall and ran to a neighbouring house, where human excrement, discharged through the openings of long boards, is wont to be deposited beneath the bellies of those sitting there; and there, for the dishonouring of Christ born of Mary, he threw down her image through the opening upon the human excrement lying below, and himself, sitting over it, purging his belly through that same opening, voiding the dung of his own belly upon the panel of blessed Mary deposited a little before therein, acting most stupidly, poured it out; and after that most filthy purging of his belly, that most unhappy man departed.

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Quid uero postea gessit aut quomodo uixit uel qualem uitae terminum habuit, inconpertum habetur. Igitur post illius discessum maligni alius de Christianorum plebe superuenit felix homo zelotypus dominicarum rerum; sciens, quod factum fuerat, imaginem sanctae Mariae requisiuit et inter humana stercora absconditam inueniens subleuauit et diligenter abstergens et lauans aquis emundauit mundissimis secumque in domo honorifice conlocatam habuit. Mirum dictu, ex eadem beatae Mariae imaginis tabula uerum ebulliens distillat semper oleum, quod Arculfus, ut referre solet, propriis conspexit oculis. Hoc mirabile oleum honorem protestatur Mariae matris domini Iesu, de quo pater ait:

但他此後做了什麼、如何生活、或得了怎樣的人生結局，則無從查考。因此，在那惡人離去後，另有一人前來——是基督徒中一位有福之人，為主的事大發熱心——他既知所發生之事，便尋找聖馬利亞的肖像，發現它藏於人糞之中，便將它取起，仔細擦拭、洗滌，用最潔淨的水把它洗淨，並把它尊榮地安置在自己家中。說來奇妙，從那蒙福馬利亞肖像的同一木板上，常有真實的油湧出滴落，亞庫夫據其慣於述說的，曾親眼目睹。這奇妙的油見證了主耶穌之母馬利亞所受的尊榮，關於她，父說道：

But what he afterwards did, or how he lived, or what kind of end of life he had, remains unknown. Therefore, after the departure of that wicked man, another came—a fortunate man from the people of the Christians, zealous for the things of the Lord—who, knowing what had been done, sought out the image of Saint Mary, and finding it hidden among the human excrement, lifted it up, and carefully wiping it off and washing it, cleansed it with the purest waters, and kept it honourably placed in his house. Marvellous to tell, from that same panel of the image of blessed Mary there always distils a true bubbling oil, which Arculf, as he is wont to relate, beheld with his own eyes. This marvellous oil attests the honour of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, concerning whom the Father says:

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In oleo sancto meo liniui eum. Item psalmigraphus ad ipsum filium dei loquitur dicens: Unxit te deus deus tuus oleo laetitiae prae participibus tuis. Haec itaque, quae superius, de Constantinopoleos situ et conditione nec non et de illa rotunda ecclesia, in qua salutare lignum reconditum habetur, et cetera ab ore sancti sacerdotis Arculfi intente didicimus, qui in eadem primaria Romani imperii ciuitate a paschali solemnitate usque ad dominicum permansit natalicium, postea exinde Romam appetens enauigauit. VI. DE MONTE VVLCANO, QVI SEMPER INTONAT.

「我用我的聖油膏了他。」詩篇作者同樣對神的兒子說道：「神，就是你的神，用喜樂油膏你，勝過膏你的同伴。」因此，以上這些事——關於君士坦丁堡的地理位置與境況，以及那存放救恩之木的圓形教會——和其餘各事，我們都從聖潔的祭司亞庫夫口中專心聽得；他在那羅馬帝國的首要之城從逾越節的莊嚴節期一直留到主的聖誕，之後從那裡前往羅馬，乘船離去。第六章：論那常常轟鳴的火神山（火山）。

'With my holy oil have I anointed him.' Likewise the psalmist speaks to the very Son of God, saying: 'God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.' These things, then, which are above—concerning the site and condition of Constantinople, and also concerning that round church in which the saving wood is kept—and the rest, we have learned attentively from the mouth of the holy priest Arculf, who in that same chief city of the Roman empire remained from the Paschal solemnity until the Lord's Nativity, and afterwards, seeking Rome from thence, sailed away. VI. CONCERNING MOUNT VULCAN, WHICH ALWAYS THUNDERS.

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Quaedam insula in mari magno habetur ad orientalem plagam XII milibus a Sicilia distans, in qua Vulcanus mons quasi tonitruum totis diebus et noctibus in tantum intonat, ut Siciliae terra longius positae terrifico tremore submoueri putetur; sed maius sexta feria et sabbato intonare uidetur. Qui omni tempore noctibus flammare monstratur, diebus uero fumare. Haec mihi Arculfus scribenti de eodem dictauit monte, qui propriis illum oculorum aspexit obtutibus noctu ignitosum, die uero fumosum; eius quoque tonitrualem sonitum propriis aurium audiuit auditibus in Sicilia per aliquot hospitatus dies.

在大海中朝東的方位有一座海島，距西西里十二哩，島上有一座火神山（火山），如雷鳴般晝夜不停地轟鳴，響亮到使位於更遠處的西西里地，都被認為因可怕的震動而搖撼；但它在第六日（週五）與安息日（週六）似乎轟鳴得更猛。它在任何時候都顯出夜間噴火、日間冒煙。亞庫夫在我書寫時向我口述了關於那同一座山的這些事，他曾以自己眼目親見它——夜間火紅、日間煙騰；他也曾在西西里寄居數日時，以自己耳朵親耳聽見它那如雷的聲響。

A certain island is found in the great sea toward the eastern region, distant twelve miles from Sicily, in which Mount Vulcan thunders like thunder all days and nights, so greatly that the land of Sicily, set further off, is thought to be moved by a terrifying tremor; but it seems to thunder more on the sixth feria (Friday) and on the Sabbath (Saturday). At all times it is shown to flame by night, but to smoke by day. Arculf dictated these things to me as I wrote concerning that same mountain, he who beheld it with the gaze of his own eyes—fiery by night, smoky by day; and likewise he heard its thunderous sound with the hearing of his own ears in Sicily, while lodging there for several days.

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Obsecro itaque eos, quicumque hos breues legerint libellos, ut pro eodem sancto sacerdote Arculfo diuinam precentur clementiam, qui haec de sanctis experimenta locis eorum frequentator libentissime nobis dictauit, quae et ego, quamlibet inter laboriosas et prope insustentabiles tota die undique conglobatas ecclesiasticae sollicitudinis occupationes constitutus, uili quamuis sermone, discribens declaraui. Horum ergo lectorem ammoneo experimentorum, ut pro me misello peccatore eorundem craxatore Christum iudicem saeculorum exorare non neglegat.

因此我懇求凡讀這些短小冊子的眾人，為這同一位聖潔祭司亞庫夫祈求神的憐憫——他作為聖地的常客，極樂意地向我們口述了這些出自那些聖地的見證；這些見證我也雖身處勞苦、幾乎不堪承受、終日從四面蜂擁而來的教會職事的纏累之中，仍以粗陋的言詞記述發表出來。所以我勸勉這些見證的讀者，不要疏忽為我這可憐的小罪人、這些記述的拙劣抄寫者，向萬世的審判者基督祈求。

I therefore beseech all, whosoever shall read these short little books, that on behalf of the same holy priest Arculf they may entreat the divine mercy—he who, as a frequenter of the holy places, most gladly dictated to us these proofs from those holy places—which I too, although placed amid the laborious and almost unsupportable occupations of ecclesiastical solicitude, crowded together from all sides the whole day long, have set forth in writing, however in poor speech. I therefore admonish the reader of these proofs not to neglect to entreat Christ, the judge of the ages, on behalf of me, a wretched little sinner, the scribbler of these same things.

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