E07837: Prosper of Aquitaine, in his Chronicle, describes how four Spanish men, *Arcadius, Pascasius, Probus and Eutycianus (Spanish men martyred in Africa by the Vandals, 02836), were martyred in Africa by the Vandal king Geiseric in 437 for refusing to convert to Arianism, and the brother of two of them, Paulillus, was severely persecuted but not martyred. Written in Latin in Gaul or Rome, in the mid 5th c.

Prosper of Aquitaine, Chronicle 1325, 1329

CCCCX
Aetio II et Segisvulto
[...]
Per idem tempus quattuor Hispani viri Arcadius Paschasius Probus et Eutycianus dudum apud Gisiricum merito sapientiae et fidelis obsequii cari clarique habebantur. quos rex ut dilectiores sibi faceret, in Arrianam perfidiam transire praecepit. sed illi hoc facinus constantissime respuentes excitato in rabidissimam iram barbaro primum proscripti, deinde in exilium acti, tum atrocissimis suppliciis excruciati, ad postremum diversis mortibus interempti inlustri martyrio mirabiliter occubuerunt. puer autem Paulillus nomine frater Eutyciani et Paschasii pro elegantia formae atque ingenii admodum regi acceptus cum a professione atque amore catholicae fidei nullis minis deturbari posset, fustibus diu caesus et ad infimam servitutem damnatus est, ideo, ut apparet, non occisus, ne de superata saevitia impii etiam illa aetas gloriaretur.

'410 [years since the Crucifixion]
[Consulship of] Aetius for the second time and Segisvultus [= AD 437]
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At the same time, four Spanish men, Arcadius, Paschasius, Probus, and Eutycianus, were held to have long been dear to Geiseric and renowned by virtue of their wisdom and faithful service. To make them dearer to him, the king ordered them to cross over into Arian perfidy. But very firmly rejecting this crime, they were first proscribed by the barbarian, who was stirred up into the most rabid anger, then sent into exile, then tormented with the most atrocious tortures, and finally, being put to death in different ways, perished magnificently in a glorious martyrdom. A boy, however, by the name of Paulillus, the brother of Eutycianus and Paschasius, very pleasing to the king on account of the handsomeness of his appearance and character, since he could not be shaken by threats from the profession and love of the Catholic faith, was beaten for a long time with clubs and condemned to the lowest servitude. Thus, as it appears, he was not killed, in case even [someone of] that age should take pride in overcoming the cruelty of the impious man.'

Text: Mommsen 1892, 475-6. Translation: David Lambert.