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IV. Πρῶτος μὲν οὗν τούτων ὁ μικρῷ πρόσθεν δηλωθεὶς Πλούταρχος ἢν· οὗ τὴν ἐπὶ θάνατον ἀπαγομένου, σμικροῦ δεῖν αὖθις ὁ περὶ οὗ ὁ λόγος, συμπαρὼν αὐτῷ εἰς ὑστάτην τοῦ βίου τελευτήν, ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτοῦ πολιτῶν ἀνῄρητο, ὡς αἴτιος αὐτῷ πεφηνὼς τοῦ θανάτου· θεοῦ δὲ αὐτὸν ἐτήρει καὶ τότε βουλή. μετὰ δὲ Πλούταρχον δεύτερος τῶν Ὠριγένους φοιτητῶν μάρτυς ἀναδείκνυται Σέρηνος, διὰ πυρὸς τὴν δοκιμὴν ἧς παρειλήφει πίστεως παρεσχημένος. τῆς αὐτῆς διατριβῆς τρίτος καθίσταται μάρτυς Ἡρακλείδης, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ τέταρτος Ἥρων, ὁ μὲν πρότερος ἔτι κατηχούμενος, ὃ δὲ νεοφώτιστος, τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτμηθέντες. ἔτι πρὸς τούτοις τῆς αὐτῆς σχολῆς πέμπτος ἀθλητὴς εὐσεβείας ἀνακηρύττεται ἕτερος τοῦ πρώτου Σέρηνος, ὃν μετὰ πλείστην βασάνων ὑπομονὴν κεφαλῇ κολασθῆναι λόγος ἔχει. καὶ γυναικῶν δὲ Ἡραΐς ἔτι κατηχουμένη “τὸ βάπτισμα,” ὥς πού φησιν αὐτός, τὸ διὰ πυρὸς λαβοῦσα,” τὸν βίον ἐξελήλυθεν.
IV. The first of these, then, was Plutarch, he whom we mentioned a little while ago. As this man was being led on the way to death, he of whom we have been speaking, being present with him to the very end of his life, was again almost killed by his fellow-citizens, as being clearly responsible for his death. But on that occasion also he was kept by the will of God. And, after Plutarch, Serenus was the second of Origen's pupils to show himself a martyr, having through fire given the proof of the faith he had received. From the same school Heraclides was the third martyr, and after him Hero, the fourth; the former of these was still a catechumen, the latter lately baptized. Both were beheaded. Further, in addition to these, from the same school was proclaimed a fifth champion of piety, another Serenus, a different person from the first-mentioned of that name. It is recorded that after very great endurance of torture his head was taken off. And, among the women, Herais, who was still under instruction for baptism, as Origen himself says somewhere, “received the baptism by fire,” and so ended her life.