having signed, to have permission, whether also having refused to flee. But they chose to flee and to be submerged in the abyss of destruction, as was worthy for them. 2.1azu S. 12-13 Vita Constantini Cod. Angelic. A f. 22r Franchi de' Can. 94: But Eusebius, the bishop of Nicomedia, being very much dominated by the heresy of the heteroousians, having come to Chalcedon together with Theognis, they came together to consult about what was to be done; who also meet with Maris. And the three, now with one another, sitting together in a certain chamber of the church, were making speeches concerning the matters at hand, and were chattering nonsense about their own heresy. Therefore, with their opinion being divided, suddenly a great earthquake occurred around them and them alone; and a deep gloom took hold around about the third hour of the day; and there was helpless amazement. But not even so were the thrice-wicked men willing to take notice, nor did they rise up, that in fact the divinity, being angry and displeased at the things about which they were wickedly and impiously plotting, was scourging the inanimate earth, by the blow against it refuting and overthrowing their audacity and madness, even if they did not thus choose to be sober-minded. For the fact that the event happened to none of the others, but encompassed only those whom the practice of blasphemy possessed, how does it not provide clear proof of the divine wrath stirred up against them? Alas for the hardening of Satan by which the entire assembly of the heretics was held fast. 2.2aebd. Folge But Arius, having been expelled from the most pious council and being shut out from everywhere by the orthodox and not having any way to still converse with the crowds and teach concerning the matters at hand, turned to writing, composing some psalms as he was able, and songs for sailors and for the mill, and such as those who drive donkeys on journeys are accustomed to use. But this man, on account of his blasphemies, will in due time draw upon himself a fitting punishment; But Crispus etc. † unt. 4a2.4aVita Constantini Cod. Angelic. A f. 23 Franchi de' Cav. 95; 6s. ob. S. 13, 31: But Crispus, the eldest of Constantine's sons, born to him from the daughter of Maxentius, ruling under his father (for he had the rank of Caesar) and displaying brilliant deeds against the enemy, in the very flower of his youth, in the following year after the synod that took place in Nicaea, to put it briefly, died suddenly. But those full of heresy and impiety say that he met the end of his life from his father, whose accounts, since they are exceedingly false, it would indeed have been right to omit; but since I have undertaken with all diligence to record all the opinions formerly reported, it is good to add this one also to the present account, not so much for credence as for a refutation of those who choose to speak falsehoods. For they say that his stepmother Fausta provided the cause of the murder for Crispus through erotic madness. For she, having fallen in love with the young man and now being overcome by her passion, at first wheedled him with various words, leading him into conversation; but since he was altogether averse, not even enduring the mere mention, and it was clear that he would in no way be persuaded, then the woman, now inflamed by her desires and not knowing what to do with herself, proceeded to plot against the one she desired, having turned her love-potion into hatred. For being enraged by the unfulfillment of her desire, she made the cure for her passion the slaughter of the one no longer desired, being eager to sate her desire with murder. And she persuades her own husband to kill his own child, having made her own sickness his, and having brought all sorts of false accusations against him. But he, at what he heard from his own wife, his reason being overcome by anger, and being unwilling to put off anything for an examination of the matter, becomes a Theseus to his child, and in the very way that that man, by the slander of Phaedra, killed Hippolytus, who was born to him from Hippolyta the Amazon, in this way also this man slaughtered Crispus by the false accusation of his own

ὑπογράψαντες αδειαν εχειν, ει τε καὶ ἀνηνάμενοι φυγεῖν. οἱ δὲ φεύγειν ᾑροῦντο καὶ πρὸς τὸν τῆς ἀπωλείας βυθόν, ωσπερ ην αὐτοῖς αξιον, καταδύεσθαι. 2.1azu S. 12-13 Vita Constantini Cod. Angelic. A f. 22r Franchi de' Can. 94: Εὐσέβιος δὲ ὁ τῆς Νικομηδείας ἐπίσκοπος, τῇ τῶν ἑτεροουσιαστῶν αἱρέσει πάνυ κατισχυμένος, εἰς Χαλκηδόνα παραγενόμενος μετὰ καὶ Θεόγνιδος κοινῇ συνῆλθον περὶ τῶν πρακτέων βουλεύσασθαι· οι  καὶ συγγίνονται τῷ Μάριδι. καὶ οἱ τρεῖς ηδη σὺν ἀλλήλοις εν τινι τῆς ἐκκλησίας παστάδι συγκαθεζόμενοι λόγους ἐποιοῦντο περὶ τῶν προκειμένων, καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς αὐτῶν κατεφληνάφουν αἱρέσεως. τῆς ουν γνώμης αὐτῶν μεριζομένης, ἐξαπιναίως σεισμός τε γίνεται μέγας περὶ αὐτοὺς καὶ μόνον· καὶ ζόφος ἐπέσχε βαθὺς περὶ τρίτην που τῆς ἡμέρας ωραν· καὶ εκπληξις ἀμήχανος ην. ̓Αλλ' οὐδὲ ουτως συναίσθησιν οἱ τρισαλιτήριοι λαβεῖν ἠθέλησαν, οὐδὲ διανέστησαν, ὡς αρα τὸ θεῖον, ἐφ' οις κακῶς καὶ ἀθέως μετεβουλεύοντο χαλεπαῖνον καὶ ἀπαρεσκόμενον, τὴν αψυχον ἐμάστιζε γῆν, τῇ περὶ ταύτην πληγῇ τὴν ἐκείνων, εἰ καὶ μηδὲ ουτως ᾑρετίσαντο σωφρονεῖν, διελέγχων καὶ καταστρέφων τόλμαν τε καὶ ἀπόνοιαν. τὸ γὰρ περὶ μηδένα μὲν τῶν αλλων τὸ πάθος γενέσθαι, αὐτοὺς δὲ μόνους ους ειχεν ἡ τῆς δυσφημίας μελέτη περιλαβεῖν, πῶς οὐ φανερὸν τὸν ελεγχον οὐ παρέχεται τῆς κατ' αὐτῶν ἀνακινηθείσης θείας ὀργῆς; βαβαὶ τῆς τοῦ Σατανᾶ πωρώσεως ῃ  συνεσχέθη τὸ τῶν αἱρετικῶν απαν αθροισμα. 2.2aebd. Folge ̔Ο δὲΑρειος ἐξεληλυθὼς τοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου συλλόγου καὶ πανταχόθεν παρὰ τῶν ὀρθοδόξων ἀποκλειόμενος καὶ οὐκ εχων οπως ετι τοῖς πλήθεσιν ὁμιλοίη καὶ διδάσκοι περὶ τῶν προκειμένων, ἐπὶ τὸ γράφειν ἐχώρει ψαλμούς τέ τινας οπως ἠδύνατο συντιθεὶς καὶ ᾳσματα ναυτικά τε καὶ ἐπιμύλια καὶ οιοις οἱ ἐν ταῖς ὁδοιπορίαις οἱ τοὺς ονους ἐλαύνοντες εἰώθασιν χρῆσθαι. ̓Αλλὰ χάριν μὲν ουτος τῶν βλασφημιῶν ἐν καιρῷ τῷ προσήκοντι τιμωρίαν τὴν πρέπουσαν ἐπισπάσεται· Κρίσπος δὲ usw. † unt. 4a2.4aVita Constantini Cod. Angelic. A f. 23 Franchi de' Cav. 95; 6s. ob. S. 13, 31: Κρίσπος δὲ ὁ πρεσβύτατος τῶν Κωνσταντίνου υἱῶν ἐκ τῆς Μαξεντίου γενόμενος αὐτῷ θυγατρός, ὑποβασιλεύων τε τῷ πατρὶ (τὴν γὰρ τοῦ Καίσαρος ειχε τιμὴν) καὶ λαμπρὰ κατὰ τοὺς πολεμίους εργα ἀποδεικνύμενος, ὑπ' αὐτῷ τῷ τῆς ωρας ανθει, τῷ ἑξῆς ἐνιαυτῷ μετὰ τὴν γενομένην ἐν τῇ Νικαίᾳ σύνοδον ἀθρόως εἰπεῖν ἐτελεύτησεν. οἱ δὲ τῆς αἱρέσεως καὶ δυσσεβείας ἀνάμεστοι παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτὸν τὸ τοῦ βίου τέλος εὑρεῖν φασιν, ων καὶ τοὺς λόγους, ὡς λίαν οντας ψευδεῖς, δίκαιον ην τῷ οντι παραλιπεῖν· ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ πάσας τὰς τῶν πάλαι φημιζομένας δόξας ἀναγράφειν διὰ πάσης ἐθέμην σπουδῆς, καλὸν καὶ ταύτην τῷ μετὰ χεῖρας λόγῳ συνθεῖναι, οὐχὶ πρὸς πίστωσιν μᾶλλον οσον πρὸς ελεγχον τῶν τὰ ψευδῆ λέγειν προαιρουμένων. φασὶν γὰρ τῷ Κρίσπῳ τὴν μητρυιὰν Φαῦσταν τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ φόνου διὰ μανίας ἐρωτικῆς παρασχεῖν. εἰς ερωτα γὰρ αυτη τοῦ νέου πεσοῦσα καὶ ηδη νικωμένη τῷ πάθει, πρῶτα μὲν ποικίλοις αὐτὸν ἐξεκώτιλλε λόγοις εἰς τὴν ὁμιλίαν ὑπαγομένη· ἐπεὶ δ' ἐκεῖνος ἀποστρόφως τε παντάπασιν ειχεν μηδὲ πρὸς μόνην καρτερῶν τὴν μνήμην, καὶ δῆλος ην οὐδαμῶς πεισθησόμενος, ἐνταῦθα ηδη πυρπολουμένη τοῖς πόθοις ἡ γυνὴ καὶ οὐκ εχουσα ητις γένηται, πρὸς ἐπιβουλὴν ἐχώρει τοῦ ποθουμένου, τρέψασα τὸ φίλτρον εἰς μῖσος. τῷ γὰρ ἀνεκπράκτῳ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ὀργιζομένη, θεραπείαν ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ πάθους τὴν τοῦ μὴ ποθουμένου σφαγήν, φόνῳ προθυμουμένη κορέσαι τὸν πόθον. καὶ πείθει δὲ τὸν ἑαυτῆς ανδρα κτεῖναι τὸν ἑαυτοῦ παῖδα, τὴν ἑαυτῆς νόσον ἐκείνου ποιησαμένη, καὶ παντοδαποὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ ψευδεῖς καταφορήσασα λόγους. ὁ δ' ἐφ' οις ηκουσεν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γυναικὸς φθασθεὶς τὸν λογισμὸν τῇ ὀργῇ καὶ μηδὲν εἰς ἐξέτασιν ἀναβαλέσθαι τοῦ πράγματος ἐθελήσας, Θησεὺς γίνεται τῷ παιδί, καὶ ονπερ ἐκεῖνος τρόπον τῇ διαβολῇ τῆς Φαίδρας ἀνεῖλε τὸν ̔Ιππόλυτον τὸν ἐξ ̔Ιππολύτης αὐτῷ τῆς ̓Αμαζόνος γενόμενον, τοῦτον καὶ ουτος τὸν τρόπον ἀπέσφαξεν τὸν Κρίσπον τῇ συκοφαντίᾳ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ