One of the most illustrious of the lay martyrs of the Diocletian persecution was the gallant young soldier Sebastian, who has given his name to one of the most ancient basilicas of Rome and to the adjacent Catacomb, and Adauctus, a treasurer of the imperial palace. In the Damasine epitaph of the latter occur the fine lines: INTEMERATA FIDE CONTEMPTO PRINCIPE MVNDI CONFESSVS |XRM| CAELESTIA REGNA PETISTI.[140] With unfaltering faith, despising the lord of the world, having confessed Christ, thou didst seek the celestial realms. Several of the Christian cemeteries receive their designation from the 97 martyrs of this period, among others those of Saints Agnes, Peter, and Marcellinus, of Pancratius, Generosa, Zeno, Soteris, and _Quattro Incoronati_, notice of whom will be more appropriate in the accounts of their respective sepulchres. History has also preserved the names of many other valiant confessors, who proved faithful even unto death amid the fiery trials and cruel mockings and scourgings to which they were exposed. Among these may be mentioned Cosmo and Damian, two holy brothers of Cilicia, who practised in Rome with great skill the healing art, from pure love to God and to their fellow-men, refusing to receive aught for their services;[141] Simplicius and Faustinus, who were drowned in the Tiber by the tyrant’s orders, and their martyred sister Beatrice, whose tombs and epitaphs De Rossi believes he has recovered.[142] Most of the legends, however, of what may be called the Romish mythology are disfigured by absurd and superstitious additions; and the martyrs themselves have become the objects of idolatrous veneration far alien from the spirit of that primitive Christianity for which they died.[143] The following inscriptions from the Catacombs are the only records of 98 the victims of persecution whose names they bear. [Illustration: Fig. 21.--Lannus, the martyr of Christ, rests here. He suffered under Diocletian. For his successors also.] [Illustration: ☧] PRIMITIVS IN PACE QVI POST MVLTAS ANGVSTIAS FORTISSIMVS MARTYR ET VIXIT ANNOS P · M · XXXVIII CONIVG · SVO PERDVLCISSIMO BENEMERENTI FECIT. Primitius in peace, after many torments, a most valiant martyr. He lived thirty-eight years, more or less. [His wife] raised this to her dearest husband, the well-deserving. HIC GORDIANVS GALLIAE NVNCIVS IVGVLATVS PRO FIDE CVM FAMILIA TOTA QVIESCVNT IN PACE THEOPHILA ANCILLA FECIT. Here lies Gordianus, deputy of Gaul, who was executed for the faith, with all his family: they rest in peace. Theophila, a handmaid, set up this.[144]