_Patroclus_--"Who are they?" _Aurelian_--"First Apollo, the chief;[105] then Jove, the great god; and Diana, the mother of the gods."[106] _Patroclus_--"Why, how can they be almighty, when Apollo kept sheep for Admetus, and Jove died of a pain in his belly; and as for your Diana, every one knows she is the noon-tide demon." Then Aurelian, inflamed with rage, ordered Patroclus to be taken to a marshy place, and to be there executed. But when the soldiers led him to the bank of the Seine, which had overflowed, Patroclus escaped from them across the river, and took refuge on a hill dedicated to idol worship. Here a woman saw him, and she went straightway and told the soldiers. Then they came upon him, and smote off his head. [Illustration: S. AGNES. From the Vienna Missal. Jan. 21.] S. Patroclus in France is called _S. Parre_. He is one of the Patrons of Troyes. S. AGNES, V. M. (ABOUT A.D. 303.) [Roman Martyrology, modern Anglican Kalendar, and Greek Menaea. The Greeks commemorate her on Jan. 14th, 21st, and July 5th. Her Acts, attributed to S. Ambrose, are a rhetorical recension of her genuine Acts. S. Ambrose refers to S. Agnes in lib. I. De Virginibus, and in his Commentary on Ps. civ., and in lib. I. c. 4 of his offices. There is also a hymn of Prudentius, relating the Acts of this famous martyr. The Acts are sufficiently elegant to be really by S. Ambrose, and are far superior in style to those of S. Sebastian, falsely attributed to him.]