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| In response to them, Augustine formulated a simple criterion: It is not the pain that one undergoes but the reason why one undergoes it that distinguishes the true from the false martyr (non poena sed causa--not the punishment but the reason). 45) Those who presented themselves spontaneously--the sponte comparentes--such as Robert Brown in the present case, could abjure coram congregatione (before the congregation) and were spared in some cases the poenas temporales (secular punishment). Proteus' song makes Arisraeus responsible for the death of Eurydice (she was bitten by a poisonous snake while fleeing his advances), and Orpheus responsible for the loss of Aristaeus' hive ("tibi has miserabilis Orpheus / haudquaquam ad meritum poenas. |
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