Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of St…
“ Eugenia then was greatly stirred, and with weeping addressed her two servants, whose names were Protus and Jacinctus, who had been instructed in Latin and in Greek, together with Eugenia, in worldly doctrine, and were eunuchi, that is to say, castrated, and were to their mistress true and faithful. Then Eugenia took them apart in conversation, called them brethren, and besought that they would shear her hair after the fashion of men, and disguise her with garments as if she were a boy. She desired to approach the Christians in the garb of a man, that she might not be betrayed. ”
