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51 Chap. LI PL 7, 273
Valeria, too, who for fifteen months had wandered under a mean garb from province to province, was at length discovered in Thessalonica, was apprehended, together with her mother Prisca, and suffered capital punishment. Both the ladies were conducted to execution; a fall from grandeur which moved the pity of the multitude of beholders that the strange sight had gathered together. They were beheaded, and their bodies cast into the sea. Thus the chaste demeanour of Valeria, and the high rank of her and her mother, proved fatal to both of them.
Valeria quoque per varias provincias quindecim mensibus plebeio cultu pervagata, postremo apud Thessalonicam cognita, comprehensa cum matre poenas dedit. Ductae igitur mulieres cum ingenti spectaculo et miseratione tanti casus ad supplicium, et, amputatis capitibus, corpora earum in mare abjecta sunt. Ita illis pudicitia et conditio exitio fuit.