E06993: The De Locis Sanctis, a guide to the graves of the martyrs around Rome, lists those on the via Latina, south-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683.

On the Holy Places of the Martyrs which are outside the City of Rome (De locis sanctis martyrum quae sunt foris civitatis Romae), via Latina

Iuxta uiam uero Latinam ecclesia est sancti Gordiani ubi ipse cum fratre Epimacho in una sepultura; ibi quoque Quartus et Quintus; ibi Sulpicius et Seruilianus et sancta Sofia et Trophimus cum multis martyribus sepulti dormiunt.

Et iuxta eandem uiam Tertuli[a]ni est basilica ubi ipse cum multis martyribus iacet. Ecclesia quoque sanctae Eugeniae iuxta eam uiam est, ubi ipsa cum matre sua in uno tumulo iacet. Ibi sanctus Stephanus papa cum toto clero suo numero XXVIII martyres dormit; ibi sanctus Nemeseus, sanctus Olymphius, sanctus Sympronius, sanctus Theodotus, sanctus Superius, sanctus Obloteris, sanctus Tiburticanus martyres sunt sepulti.




'Then by the via Latina is the church of saint Gordianus where he [rests] with his brother Epimachus in one grave; there are also Quartus and Quintus; there sleep Sulpicius and Servilianus and saint Sophia and Trophimus, buried with many martyrs.

And close by the road is the basilica of saint Tertulianus where he himself lies with many martyrs. Also, next to the road is the church of saint Eugenia, where she lies with her mother in one tomb. There sleeps also Stephanus, the pope, with his whole clergy, altogether 28 martyrs: there saint Nemeseus, saint Olymphius, saint Sympronius, saint Theodotus, saint Superius, saint Obloteris, saint Tiburticanus, the martyrs, are buried.



Text: Valentini and Zucchetti 1942, 111-112. Translation: P. Polcar.

The bracketed <> passage is an interpolation added, in a more-or-less contemporary hand, to the late-8th-century Vienna manuscript of the text. The information it contains probably derived from another written source (of uncertain date), rather than from new direct observation.


First paragraph: [*Gordianus, martyr of Rome under Julian the Apostate, S00579; *Epimachus, martyr of Rome, buried on the via Latina, S00295; *Quartus and Quintus, martyrs of Rome, buried on the Via Latina, S00581; *Sulpicius and Servilianus, companion martyrs of Nereus and Achilleus, S00403; *Sophia, martyr of Rome, buried on the via Latina, S02687; *Trophimus, martyr of Rome, buried on the Via Latina, S00583]

Second paragraph: [*Eugenia, virgin and martyr of Rome, S00401; possibly *Stephen, the First Martyr, S00030; *Stephanus, bishop and martyr of Rome, S00205, and a number of his companion martyrs: Tertullinus, Nemesius, Olympius, Symphronius, Theodolus, and Exsuperia (for 'Superius' in our text); also, perhaps, Obloteris and Tiburticanus]

Third paragraph: [*Stephen, the First Martyr, S00030]