death, having been carried out by a dolphin. 2.13 That he says the martyr Lucian, being about to die, and when the tyrannical violence provided neither a temple nor an altar, but when his bonds and wounds did not even permit him to move, lying on his own breast performed the awesome sacrifice, and so he himself partook and permitted the others to partake of the undefiled victim. And the sacred rite was performed in the prison, with the holy choir that surrounded him, as he was already dying, fulfilling the form of a church and security, so that what was being done might not be seen by the impious. 2.14 He records many other disciples of this martyr, among whom he also numbers Eusebius of Nicomedia, Maris of Chalcedon, and Theognis of Nicaea, and Leontius, who later became bishop of Antioch, and Antonius of Tarsus in Cilicia, and Menophantus and Nominion and Eudoxius; but also Alexander and Asterius the Cappadocian; whom he says Hellenized, yielding to the violence of the tyrants, but later recalled their defeat, with their teacher assisting them towards repentance. 2.15 That he says of the aforementioned that Antonius and Leontius preserved their impiety unrepented; but Eusebius and Maris and Theognis, though carried away with the synod at Nicaea, recanted their change of mind. But Maris, having recanted from that position, slipped again into another absurdity, and indeed Theognis also; who thinks God was a father even before begetting the Son, inasmuch as he had the power of begetting. But also that Asterius perverted his opinion, testifying in his own speeches and writings that the Son is the unalterable image of the Father's substance. 2.16 That he writes that in the thirty-second year of his reign, Constantine died in Nicomedia by poison from his brothers; and being near his end and aware of the plot, he wrote a will demanding punishment for his murderers and ordered that the first of his sons to arrive should exact it, for fear that they too might suffer something similar from them, and gave the will to Eusebius of Nicomedia. But he, suspecting that the emperor's brothers might sometime ask for it and wish to learn what was written, placed the document in the hand of the deceased and hid it in his clothes. And when they asked for it, as he had suspected, he said he had received it, but confessed to have given it back into his hands. Then after this, having taken it, he handed the letter to his son Constantius, who had arrived before the others; and he not long after carried out his father's commands. 2.17 This fighter against God accuses the Christians of propitiating the image of Constantine, which stood on the porphyry column, with sacrifices, and of honoring it with lamp-lightings and incense, and of offering prayers as to a god and performing apotropaic supplications against terrible things. 2.18 That he says that when the great Constantine died and those everywhere who were distressed by exile had received permission for their recall, he also says that Athanasius, having arrived in Alexandria from the Gauls, since he had learned that Gregory was dead, immediately as he was went from the ship into the church and took back the throne, having made no account of those who had deposed him. 3.t FROM THE THIRD HISTORY 3.1 That he says Constantine, who was the eldest of Constantine's sons, plotted against his brother Constans; and clashing in battle with his generals was killed, and the portion of the empire under him was joined to that of Constans. 3.2 That he speaks of Constantius with praise and says that he built the church in Constantinople which is both called and is the Great one. And indeed that he transferred Andrew the apostle from Achaia to the temple which he had built, bearing the common name of the apostles; near which he also established his father's tomb; yes, and also Luke the evangelist from the same Achaia to the same

θάνατον ὑπὸ δελφῖνος ἐκκομισθείς. 2.13 Ὅτι τὸν μάρτυρα Λουκιανόν φησι μέλλοντα τελευτᾶν, καὶ μήτε ναὸν μήτε θυσιαστήριον τῆς τυραννικῆς βίας παρεχούσης, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ αὐτοῦ κινεῖσθαι τῶν δεσμῶν καὶ πληγῶν συγχωρούντων, ἐν τῷ οἰκείῳ στέρνῳ ἀνακείμενον τὴν φρικτὴν θυσίαν τελεσάμενον, οὕτω τε αὐτὸν μετασχεῖν καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους μεταλαβεῖν τοῦ ἀχράντου θύματος ἐπιτρέψαι. ἐτελέσθη δὲ ἡ ἱερουργία ἐν τῇ εἱρκτῇ, τοῦ κυκλώσαντος αὐτὸν ἱεροῦ χοροῦ ὡς ἤδη ἀποβιοῦντα ἐκκλησίας σχῆμα καὶ ἀσφάλειαν τοῦ μὴ καθορᾶσθαι τὰ δρώμενα παρὰ τῶν ἀσεβούντων ἀναπληροῦντος. 2.14 Τούτου τοῦ μάρτυρος πολλοὺς μὲν καὶ ἄλλους μαθητὰς ἀναγράφει, οἷς καὶ Εὐσέβιον τὸν Νικομηδείας καὶ Μάριν τὸν Καλχηδόνος καὶ τὸν Νικαίας Θέογνιν συντάττει καὶ Λεόντιον, τὸν ὕστερον γεγονότα τῆς Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπον, καὶ Ἀντώνιον, τὸν Ταρσοῦ τῆς Κιλικίας, καὶ Μηνόφαντον καὶ Νοομίνιον καὶ Εὐδόξιον· οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ Ἀστέριον τὸν Καππαδόκην· οὓς καὶ ἑλληνίσαι φησὶν ἐνδόντας τῇ τῶν τυράννων βίᾳ, ὕστερον δὲ ἀνακαλέσασθαι τὴν ἧτταν, συλλαβομένου αὐτοῖς πρὸς τὴν μετάνοιαν τοῦ διδασκάλου. 2.15 Ὅτι τῶν εἰρημένων Ἀντώνιον μὲν καὶ Λεόντιον ἀπαράτρωτον τὴν ἀσέβειαν διασώσασθαι λέγει· Εὐσέβιον δὲ καὶ Μάριν καὶ Θέογνιν συναπαχθῆναι μὲν τῇ κατὰ Νίκαιαν συνόδῳ, ἀνενεχθῆναι δὲ τῆς μεταβολῆς. τὸν δὲ Μάριν ἐκεῖθεν ἀνενεχθέντα, εἰς ἑτέραν αὖθις κατολισθῆσαι ἀτοπίαν, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸν Θέογνιν· ὃς τὸν θεὸν καὶ πρὸ τοῦ γεννῆσαι τὸν υἱὸν πατέρα οἴεται, ἅτε δὴ τὴν δύναμιν ἔχοντα τοῦ γεννῆσαι. ἀλλὰ δὴ καὶ τὸν Ἀστέριον παρατρέψαι τὸ φρόνημα, ἀπαράλλακτον εἰκόνα τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς οὐσίας εἶναι τὸν υἱὸν ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῦ λόγοις καὶ γράμμασι διαμαρτυρόμενον. 2.16 Ὅτι τὸ τριακοστὸν δεύτερον ἔτος ἐπιβαίνοντος τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ Κωνσταντίνου, ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ φαρμάκοις ὑπὸ τῶν ἀδελφῶν τεθνάναι γράφει· ἐγγὺς δὲ τοῦ τέλους γεγονότα καὶ αἰσθόμενον τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς, διαθήκας τε γράψαι τιμωρίαν ἀπαιτούσας τοὺς ἀνελόντας καὶ ταύτην εἰσπράξασθαι τὸν προκαταλαβόντα τῶν παίδων κελεῦσαι, δέει τοῦ μή τι κἀκείνους ὑπ' αὐτῶν ὅμοιον ὑποστῆναι, δοῦναί τε τὰς διαθήκας Εὐσεβίῳ τῷ Νικομηδείας. τὸν δὲ ὑφορώμενον τοὺς τοῦ βασιλέως ἀδελφοὺς μή ποτε ζητήσειαν αὐτὰς καὶ ἀναμαθεῖν τὰ γεγραμμένα βουληθεῖεν, ἐνθεῖναι τῇ χειρὶ τοῦ νεκροῦ τὸ βιβλίον καὶ παραβῦσαι τοῖς ἱματίοις. ἐπιζητησάντων δ' ὡς ὑπενόει, λαβεῖν μὲν φάναι, ἀντιπαραδοῦναι δὲ πάλιν εἰς χεῖρας ὁμολογῆσαι. εἶτα μετὰ ταῦτα ἀνελόμενον, Κωνσταντίῳ τῷ αὐτοῦ παιδὶ ἐγχειρίσαι τὸ γράμμα προφθάσαντι τοὺς ἄλλους· τὸν δὲ μετ' οὐ πολὺ κατὰ τὰ προστάγματα τοῦ πατρὸς διαπράξασθαι. 2.17 Οὗτος ὁ θεομάχος καὶ τὴν Κωνσταντίνου εἰκόνα, τὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ πορφυροῦ κίονος ἱσταμένην, θυσίαις τε ἱλάσκεσθαι καὶ λυχνοκαΐαις καὶ θυμιάμασι τιμᾶν, καὶ εὐχὰς προσάγειν ὡς θεῷ καὶ ἀποτροπαίους ἱκετηρίας τῶν δεινῶν ἐπιτελεῖν τοὺς Χριστιανοὺς κατηγορεῖ. 2.18 Ὅτι τελευτήσαντος τοῦ μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου φησὶ καὶ τῶν πανταχόθι μεθορίαις ταλαιπωρουμένων ἄδειαν ἀνακλήσεως εἰληφότων, καὶ Ἀθανάσιόν φησιν ἐκ τῶν Γαλλιῶν εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν παραγεγονότα, ἐπεὶ Γρηγόριον ἐμεμαθήκει τετελευτηκότα, ὡς εἶχεν εὐθὺς ἀπὸ τῆς νεὼς εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν χωρῆσαι καὶ τὸν θρόνον ἀναλαβεῖν, μηδένα λόγον τῶν ἀποκηρυξάντων αὐτὸν πεποιηκότα. 3.τ ΕΚ ΤΗΣ ΤΡΙΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ 3.1 Ὅτι Κωνσταντῖνόν φησι, ὃς ἦν πρεσβύτερος τῶν Κωνσταντίνου παίδων, ἐπιβουλεῦσαι τῷ ἀδελφῷ Κώνσταντι· καὶ μάχῃ τοῖς στρατηγοῖς αὐτοῦ συρραγέντα διαφθαρῆναί τε καὶ τὴν μοῖραν τῆς ὑπ' αὐτὸν ἀρχῆς εἰς τὴν Κώνσταντος ἀνακοινωθῆναι. 3.2 Ὅτι Κωνστάντιον δι' ἐπαίνων ἄγει καὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν φησὶν αὐτὸν δομήσασθαι τὴν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ οὖσαν καὶ καλουμένην μεγάλην. καὶ δὴ καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀπόστολον ἐκ τῆς Ἀχαΐας μετακομίσαι ἐπὶ τὸν ναὸν ὃν οὗτος ἐξῳκοδομήσατο, τὸ κοινὸν τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐπιφερόμενον ὄνομα· οὗ πλησίον καὶ τὸν πατρῷον τάφον ἱδρύσασθαι· ναὶ δὴ καὶ Λουκᾶν τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς Ἀχαΐας εἰς τὸ αὐτὸ