Carpophorus
Americannoun
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When Carpophorus, by whom he was now suspected of embezzlement, determined to call him to account, Callistus fled to Portus—in the hope of escaping by sea to some other country.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
No, my eyes do not deceive, 'T is Carpophorus that I see!
From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
Yes, Carpophorus must pay For the trouble that this gives me.—
From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
Art sure thou knowest In this mountain the well-hidden Cave wherein Carpophorus dwelleth?
From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
We Carpophorus arrested, And with him this other Christian; Both we held here bound and fettered, When from out our hands he vanished.
From The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
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