Nevertheless, since Eusebius was lusting after and wanting to seize the episcopate of the city (for thus also he had moved from Berytus to Nicomedia), the pretext against Paul remained, and they did not neglect their plot, but continued to slander 7.3 him. And first he was exiled to Pontus by Constantine, and a second time by Constantius, bound with iron chains, he was exiled to Singara in Mesopotamia, then from there he was transferred to Emisa, and a fourth time to Cucusus in Cappadocia near the desert regions of Taurus, where also, as his companions reported, having been strangled by 7.4 them, he died. Yet having done this, those who speak no truth were not ashamed even after his death to invent another pretext, that he had died from a disease, 7.5 although all the inhabitants of that place knew this. For indeed Philagrius, who was then vicar of those regions and feigned everything of theirs, as they themselves might wish, nevertheless marvelling at this and perhaps being grieved that not he but another had wrought the evil deed, reported to many others and to our acquaintances and to bishop Sarapion, that Paul, having been locked up by them in a very small and dark place, was left to perish by starvation; then after six days, when they entered and found him still breathing, they finally went in and strangled the man. And 7.6 thus he came to the end of this life. They said that Philip, who had become Prefect, had been the minister of such a death. But not even this did divine justice overlook; for not a year had passed, and with great dishonor Philip was deposed from his office, so that having become a private citizen he was mocked by those by whom he did not wish to be mocked. Therefore, he himself, being very grieved and, like Cain, 'groaning and trembling' and daily expecting his murderer, died outside his own country, being himself as if terrified of his own affairs, since he did not wish it so. 7.7 Except that they do not even spare the dead, against whom while they were alive they fabricated pretexts; for thus they have endeavored to show themselves formidable to all, and they exile the living, but do not pity the dead. But even then, they alone among all men hate those who have passed away and plot against their families, these truly inhuman and hateful-of-good men who have a disposition more savage than enemies because of their own impiety, who have endeavored to plot against us and all others not out of truth, but out of fabricated pretexts. 8.1 Perceiving these things, the three brothers Constantine, Constantius, and Constans, after the death of their father, caused everyone to return to his country and church, writing concerning the others individually to each one's church, but concerning Athanasius these things, which again show the violence of the matter, and convict the murderous purpose of Eusebius and his party. 8.2τ Copy. Constantine Caesar to the people of the catholic church of the city of the Alexandrians. Nor do I think it has escaped the knowledge of your sacred mind, for this reason Athanasius the interpreter of the adorable law ... (It was written behind in the 75th discourse without alteration.) These then were the things written, but of their conspiracy what other trustworthy witness of this could there be? For knowing these things, he himself also wrote thus. 9.1 However, Eusebius and his party, seeing their heresy being diminished, write to Rome, and they also write to the emperors Constantine and Constans against Athanasius. And when those sent by Athanasius refuted what had been written by them, they were put to shame by the emperors, but Julius, the bishop of Rome, wrote that a synod ought to be held, wherever we might wish, so that they might prove what they alleged, and that they themselves might confidently make their defense concerning the things of which they were accused. For the presbyters sent by them, seeing themselves being refuted, also asked that this take place. 9.2 Of these things, therefore,

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ὅμως ἐπειδὴ Εὐσέβιος ἐπωφθαλμία θέλων ἁρπάσαι τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν τῆς πόλεως (οὕτω γὰρ καὶ ἀπὸ Βηρυτοῦ εἰς τὴν Νικομήδειαν μετῆλθεν), ἔμεινεν ἡ πρόφασις κατὰ Παύλου, καὶ οὐκ ἠμέλησαν τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς, ἀλλ' ἔμειναν διαβάλ 7.3 λοντες. καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον εἰς τὸν Πόντον ἐξωρίσθη ὑπὸ Κωνστατίνου, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον παρὰ Κωνσταντίου, δεθεὶς ἁλύσεσι σιδηραῖς, εἰς Σίγγαρα τῆς Μεσοποταμίας ἐξωρίσθη, εἶτα ἐκεῖθεν εἰς τὴν Ἔμισαν μετηνέχθη, καὶ τὸ τέταρτον εἰς Κούκουσον τῆς Καππαδοκίας περὶ τὰ ἔρημα τοῦ Ταύρου, ἔνθα καί, ὡς οἱ συνόντες ἀπήγγειλαν, ἀποπνιγεὶς παρ' 7.4 αὐτῶν ἐτελεύτησε. τοῦτο μέντοι δράσαντες οὐκ ᾐσχύνθησαν οὐδὲ μετὰ θάνατον οἱ μηδὲν ἀληθεύοντες πλάσασθαι πάλιν πρόφασιν ὡς ἀπὸ νόσου τελευτήσαντος αὐτοῦ, 7.5 καίτοι τοῦτο γινωσκόντων πάντων τῶν κατοικούντων τὸν τόπον ἐκεῖνον. καὶ γὰρ καὶ Φιλάγριος, βικάριος ὢν τότε τῶν τόπων ἐκείνων καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐκείνων ὑποκρι νόμενος, ὡς ἂν αὐτοὶ θέλωσιν, ὅμως ἐπὶ τούτῳ θαυμάζων καὶ λυπηθεὶς ἴσως, ὅτι μὴ αὐτὸς ἀλλ' ἕτερος εἰργάσατο τὸ κακόν, ἀπήγγειλε πολλοῖς τε ἄλλοις καὶ γνωρίμοις ἡμῶν καὶ τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ Σαραπίωνι, ὡς Παῦλος ἀποκλεισθεὶς παρ' ἐκείνων εἰς τόπον τινὰ βραχύτατον καὶ σκοτεινὸν ἀφείθη λιμῷ διαφθαρῆναι, εἶτα μεθ' ἡμέρας ἕξ, ὡς εἰσ ελθόντες εὗρον αὐτὸν ἔτι πνέοντα, λοιπὸν ἐπελθόντες ἀπέπνιξαν τὸν ἄνθρωπον. καὶ 7.6 οὕτω τέλος ἔσχε τοῦ βίου τούτου. τοῦ δὲ τοιούτου θανάτου διάκονον ἔλεγον γεγε νῆσθαι Φίλιππον τὸν γενόμενον ἔπαρχον. ἀλλ' οὐδὲ τοῦτο παρεῖδεν ἡ θεία δίκη· οὐδὲ γὰρ παρῆλθεν ἐνιαυτός, καὶ μετὰ πολλῆς ἀτιμίας καθῃρέθη τῆς ἀρχῆς ὁ Φίλιππος, οὕτως ὡς ἰδιώτην γενόμενον ὑφ' ὧν οὐκ ἤθελε καταπαίζεσθαι. πάνυ γοῦν καὶ αὐτὸς λυπούμενος καὶ κατὰ τὸν Κάιν «στένων καὶ τρέμων» καὶ καθ' ἡμέραν προσδοκῶν τὸν ἀναιροῦντα ἔξω τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδος καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ τῶν ἰδίων ὥσπερ ἐκπλαγείς, ἐπεὶ μὴ οὕτως ἤθελεν, 7.7 ἀπέθανε. πλὴν ὅτι καὶ κατὰ νεκρῶν οὐ φείδονται, καθ' ὧν καὶ ζώντων ἐπλάσαντο προφάσεις· οὕτω γὰρ ἑαυτοὺς πρὸς πάντας φοβεροὺς ἐπιδεικνύειν ἐσπούδασαν, καὶ ζῶντας μὲν ἐξορίζουσιν, ἀποθανόντας δὲ οὐκ ἐλεοῦσιν. ἀλλὰ καὶ τότε μόνοι παρὰ πάντας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους μισοῦσι τοὺς ἀπελθόντας καὶ τοῖς οἰκείοις αὐτῶν ἐπιβουλεύουσιν οἱ τῷ ὄντι ἀπάνθρωποι καὶ μισόκαλοι καὶ πλέον ἐχθρῶν τὸν τρόπον ἄγριον ἔχοντες διὰ τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀσέβειαν οἱ μὴ ἐξ ἀληθείας, ἀλλ' ἐκ πεπλασμένων προφάσεων ἡμῖν τε καὶ τοῖς ἑτέροις πᾶσιν ἐπιβουλεύειν σπουδάσαντες. 8.1 Ταῦτα συνορῶντες οἱ τρεῖς ἀδελφοὶ Κωνσταντῖνος Κωνστάντιος καὶ Κώνστας ἐποίησαν πάντας μετὰ θάνατον τοῦ πατρὸς ἐπανελθεῖν εἰς τὴν πατρίδα καὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν γράψαντες περὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἰδίᾳ τῇ ἑκάστου ἐκκλησίᾳ, περὶ δὲ Ἀθανασίου ταῦτα, ἃ πάλιν τὴν μὲν τοῦ πράγματος βίαν δείκνυσι, τὴν δὲ τῶν περὶ Εὐσέβιον ἀνδροφόνον προαίρεσιν ἐλέγχει. 8.2τ Ἀντίγραφον Κωνσταντῖνος Καῖσαρ τῷ λαῷ τῆς καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας πόλεως τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων. Οὐδὲ τὴν τῆς ὑμετέρας ἱερᾶς ἐννοίας διαπεφευγέναι γνῶσιν οἶμαι, διὰ τοῦτο Ἀθα νάσιον τὸν τοῦ προσκυνητοῦ νόμου ὑποφήτην ... (Ἐγράφη ὀπίσω εἰς τὸν οεʹ λόγον ἀπαραλλάκτως.) Τὰ μὲν οὖν γραφέντα ταῦτα, τῆς δὲ συσκευῆς αὐτῶν τίς ἕτερος ἀξιόπιστος τούτου μάρτυς ἂν γένοιτο; ταῦτα γὰρ εἰδὼς οὕτως καὶ αὐτὸς ἔγραψεν. 9.1 Οἱ μέντοι περὶ Εὐσέβιον βλέποντες ἐλαττουμένην αὐτῶν τὴν αἵρεσιν γράφουσιν εἰς Ῥώμην, γράφουσι δὲ καὶ τοῖς βασιλεῦσι Κωνσταντίνῳ καὶ Κώνσταντι κατὰ Ἀθανασίου. ὡς δὲ καὶ οἱ παρὰ Ἀθανασίου ἀποσταλέντες διήλεγξαν τὰ παρ' ἐκείνων γραφέντα, παρὰ μὲν τῶν βασιλέων ἐνετράπησαν, ὁ δὲ ἐπίσκοπος Ῥώμης Ἰούλιος ἔγραψε χρῆναι γενέσθαι σύνοδον, ἔνθα ἂν ἐθελήσωμεν, ἵνα ἃ μὲν κατηγοροῦσι δείξωσι, περὶ δὲ ὧν κατη γοροῦνται καὶ αὐτοὶ θαρροῦντες ἀπολογήσωνται. τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ οἱ παρ' αὐτῶν ἀπο 9.2 σταλέντες πρεσβύτεροι βλέποντες ἑαυτοὺς ἐλεγχομένους ἠξίωσαν γενέσθαι. τούτων τοίνυν

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