BOOK I

[Lost, with the exception of the following fragment of Chapter VI, which is preserved in the Antirrhetica of Nicephorus, Spicil. Solesm. i p. 332.]

CONCERNING Berenice,⁷¹ or the woman with the issue of blood. . . . Berenice, who once was mistress of a famous place, and honoured ruler of the great city of Edessa,⁷² having been delivered from an unclean issue of blood and speedily healed from a painful affection, whom many physicians tormented at many times, but increased the affection to the worst of maladies with no betterment at all, He made to be celebrated and famous in story till the present day in Mesopotamia, or rather in all the world --- so great was her experience ⁷³ --- for she was made whole by a touch of the saving hem of His garment.⁷⁴ For the woman, having had the record of the deed itself nobly represented in bronze,⁷⁵ gave it to her son, as something done recently, not long before. . . .

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