The governor finds Magydus empty
After Papias, Diodorus and Claudian have been killed, the governor comes to the city of Magydus to summon its inhabitants.
Again — oh, what a godless judgment. After the holy martyrs of Christ, Papias, Diodorus, and Claudian, were completed, the governor came against the city of Magydus and took his seat in the suburb of Zeus, where he tried to summon the inhabitants there too through the herald.
When they heard the herald crying out, they only withdrew from the city still more eagerly, leaving everything behind, so that the city was left deserted with the polluted ruler and his retinue. He sent out the singularii and some others to search all around the city, everywhere and house by house, in case they might find anyone. The men he had sent came and reported back to him that they had found no one, either in the city or in the fields.
Greek
Πάλιν ὢ τῆς δυσσεβοῦς κρίσεως. Μετὰ τὸ τελειωθῆναι τοὺς ἁγίους τοῦ Χριστοῦ μάρτυρας Παπίαν, Διόδωρον καὶ Κλαυδιανὸν ἐπεβέβηκεν ὁ ἡγεμὼν τῇ πόλει Μαγυδῷ, καὶ καθίσας ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ τοῦ Διὸς ἐπειρᾶτο κἀκεῖσε τοὺς οἰκήτορας διὰ τοῦ κήρυκος προσκαλεῖσθαι. Οἱ δὲ τῆς κηρυκῆς τοῦ βοῶντος ἐπακούσαντες μᾶλλον σπουδαιοτέρως ὑπεχώρησαν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως πάντα καταλείψαντες, ὥστε τὴν πόλιν μόνην ὑπολειφθῆναι μετὰ τοῦ μιαροῦ ἄρχοντος καὶ τῆς τάξεως αὐτοῦ. Ὁ δὲ ἐπέστειλεν σιγγουλαρίους καί τινας ἄλλους κύκλῳ τῆς πόλεως ἀναζητεῖν πανταχοῦ καὶ κατ᾽ οἶκον, εἴ τινας εὕροιεν. Ἦλθον οἱ ἀποσταλέντες καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν αὐτῷ μηδένα εὑρηκέναι ἐν τῇ πόλει ἢ ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς.