sentences:  He and several companions, including the priest Joseph of Bet-Katoba, who was then 70 years old, and the deacon Aitillaha of Bet-Nuhadra, who was then 66 years old, were arrested by Shapur II for refusing to worship according to the Zoroastrian faith.Acepsimas was taken in chains to Arbela (modern Erbil) before the governor.This judge admired how he could deny the divinity of the sun, which all the East adored.