Note 071
From Chapter 16 of the Decline & Fall

Among the martyrs of Lyons (Euseb. l. v. c. I) the slave Blandina was distinguished by more exquisite tortures. Of the five martyrs so much celebrated in the Acts of Felicitas and Perpetua, two were of a servile, and two others of a very mean, condition.

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