Natus in Armenia sanguine libero, captusque a finitimis hostibus, etiam tum parvulus abstractis geminis Romanis mercatoribus venundatus, ad palatium Constantini deducitur;
He was born in Armenia of free parents, but when still very young he was kidnapped by hostile tribesmen in that neighbourhood, who gelded him and sold him to some Roman traders, who brought him to Constantines palace.
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