The life of Agathonicus and Companions
The prisoners were bound and marched under guard toward Thrace for trial before the emperor.
Weakened by torture and the hardship of the journey, Zoticus, Theoprepius, and Acindynus died along the way and did not reach trial; Severian was put to death separately, near Chalcedon. Agathonicus and those still with him, including the converted senator, were finally brought before the emperor in Thrace and beheaded at Selymbria. A church in Agathonicus's honor stood at Constantinople for centuries afterward; a Russian pilgrim recorded seeing his relics there around the year 1200, and a bishop of Selymbria composed a formal tribute to him more than a thousand years after his death.
