(Tau, alpha, xi, iota, zeta) in the Vita Antonii and in some martyr-acts.

Accounts of Christian martyrdom often mention the [Greek Text Omitted] or staff of governors and other officials. Henri Etienne (Stephanus) noted this use in his still-indispensable Thesaurus: '[Greek Text Omitted] est comitatus et multitudo hominum cuipiam magistratui apparentium operamque dantium', and Ducange in his Glossarium gave several examples from Christian martyr-acts.(1) Thus the Acts of Philemon (2), '[Greek Text Omitted], [Greek Text Omitted]... [Greek Text Omitted];(2) the Acts of Saints Theodora and Didymus, [Greek Text Omitted];(3) the Acts of Saint Mercurius (10), [Greek Text Omitted].(4) Sophocles gave two further examples in his Lexicon, both from Athanasius' Apology against the Arians, and both describing a hostile interrogation conducted by Philagrios, the Arian governor of Egypt: ch. 14.4 (p. 98, 23 Opitz), [Greek Text Omitted], [Greek Text Omitted], [Greek Text Omitted]; ch. 31.1 (p. 110, 8 Opitz), [Greek Text Omitted], [Greek Text Omitted]. Since then this sense of the word has been attested …