E00800: Greek epitaph for Makedonios, the Nicene bishop of Magnesia ad Sipylum, persecuted by the Arians, who is said 'to have followed in the footsteps of the *Apostles'. Found near Apollonis (Lydia, western Asia Minor), 378.

(christogram) ἴχνεσιν ἀποστόλων ἐπιβὰς ἀνὴρ ὧδε ἐν σαρκεί τε μὴ κατὰ σάρκα ἱερατευ-
σάμενος καὶ ταύτῃ μακάρων ἀτραποὺς ἐλθὼν ἐνθάδε σκῆνος ἐνθέου ψυχῆς ἀπολέλυπεν,
πολὺς μὲν λάμψας ἀσκήσει, πολὺς δὲ ἀγάπῃ γενάμενος ἐπίσκοπος θεῖος· ὃς δὴ καὶ κατὰ πά-
σης αἱρέσεως ὁπλισάμενος τὴν ἀληθῆ τῶν πατέρων τῆς καθολικῆς ἐκλησίας διεσώσατο <πίστιν>,
Μακεδόνιος οὗτος, λαμπρὸν ἐντάφιον ἐπὶ τέλει καὶ τὸ κατὰ τοῦ ἀνομοίου δαί[μονος]
ἐν πολλοῖς τοῖς ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ διωγμοῖς ἀπενενκάμενος κλέος

1. + Fontrier, (χρ) Duchesne Guarducci || 4. <πίστιν> Duchesne, [πίστιν] Guarducci || 5. ἐπιτελεῖ Fontrier Duchesne, Foucart, ἐπὶ τέλει Grégoire

'The man lying here followed in the footsteps of the Apostles and, though in the flesh, he conducted his priestly life not according to the flesh. He thus took the paths of the blessed and left here the vessel of his God-inspired soul. He shone greatly in asceticism, and was a bishop of God greatly distinguished for his love. Armed against every heresy, he rescued the true (faith) of the fathers of the Catholic Church. This is Makedonios who ultimately earned as a splendid epitaph also the triumph over the Anomoean demon, through the numerous persecutions (which he suffered) for Christ.'

(ed. TAM V/2 1406, trans. E. Rizos, P. Nowakowski)