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Bishop of the Arethusians,[1] orderly in his speech and in his lifestyle; [it was he] whom in the time of Julian[2] they subjected to many torments and throwing him into the sewers they then gave him over to children to poke with their styli. After these things, throwing him into wicker cage and smearing him with brine and honey, they raised him up in the air in the height of summer, bidding wasps and bees alike to the feast. He endured it to the end without yielding.[3]
[Note] that Mark the evangelist has 48 sections, 36 chapters.[4]

Μάρκος, Ἀρεθουσίων ἐπίσκοπος, λόγῳ καὶ βίῳ κεκοσμημένος: ὃν ἐπὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ πολλαῖς αἰκίαις ὑπέβαλον, καὶ εἰς ὑπονόμους ἐμβαλόντες, εἶτα παιδίοις παρέδοσαν κεντεῖν αὐτὸν ταῖς γραφίσι. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα εἰς γύργαθον ἐμβαλόντες καὶ γάρῳ καὶ μέλιτι χρίσαντες, ὑπαίθριον ᾐώρησαν ἐν θέρους ἀκμῇ, σφῆκας ὁμοῦ καὶ μελίττας εἰς θοίνην προκαλούμενοι. ὁ δὲ ἀνενδότως διεκαρτέρησε. ὅτι Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἔχει τίτλους μη#, κεφάλαια λ#2#.

[1] Stephanus of Byzantium lists cities called Arethousa in Syria, Thrace and Euboia; this is the first of them.
[2] i.e. the reign of the emperor Julian the Apostate (iota 437).
[3] Theodoretus, Historia Ecclesiastica 3.7.6-10. The reason given for Mark's persecution is that he and his followers destroyed pagan temples and refused to pay to repair the buildings. St. Cassian of Imola shares with Mark the unusual torture of being stabbed by the styli of schoolchildren; see Prudentius, Peristephanon 9.
[4] The book divisions referred to here are not the modern ones; this sentence is omitted by mss. A (= Parisinus 2626), F (= Laurentianus 55.1), and V (= Vossianus Fol. 2). See tau 690, where the sentence obviously belongs; there Kuster amends "36 chapters" to "235 chapters".

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