the historian eusebius of caesarea elaborates aedesius' story: like his brother, he was a philosopher that converted to christianity. perhaps because of his standing among the educated, he seems to have thought little of professing his faith before magistrates, for which he was imprisoned several times and was sentenced to work in the mines of palestine. he sought solitude in egypt after his release, but found the persecution there was harsher under hierocles. aedesius was offended by the enslavement of consecrated virgins (who were forced to work in brothels), and so presented himself before the governor, whereupon he was seized by soldiers, tortured, and drowned. the saint's "acta" are preserved in a chaldaic text. this story is probably confused, and perhaps conflated with that of the contemporary neoplatonist philosopher, aedesius.