1. The aforementioned blessed Isidore54 had met Antony55 of sacred memory and told me of an incident well worth recording which he had heard from him. This was about a graceful maiden named Potamiaena,56 a slave of someone or other during the time of Maximian the persecutor.57 Her master was unable to seduce her with fervent and oft-repeated arguments. 2. Finally he became enraged and handed her over to the prefect of Alexandria. He denounced her as a Christian and as one who blasphemed
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