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mixing with those who shouted, he was one of them, and in the turn of the argument, setting forth his own case, he was held in no small esteem by those who hired out the shamelessness of his voice for their own quarrels. 1.1.45 But when through these means his bread became more plentiful, he thought he should not persist even in this way of life, but little by little he was also sloughing off that medical profession along with his smithing. But when Arius the God-fighter sowed these evil seeds of tares, the fruit of which is the doctrines of the Anomoeans, the schools of the physicians at that time were echoing with the uproars concerning that question. 1.1.46 Having therefore practiced in such a pursuit and having observed some assault of syllogisms from Aristotelian echoes, he was famous for surpassing Arius, the father of the heresy, in the novelty of his inventions. Or rather, having understood the logical consequence of what had been laid down by him, he seemed to be a man of sagacity and a discoverer of hidden things, declaring that which is created and from non-being to be unlike the one who created and brought it forth from non-being. Since, therefore, by means of 1.1.47 such arguments he was tickling the novelty-loving ears of those who were sick with these things, Theophilus the Blemmys, who had a certain prior intimacy with Gallus, also came to know this empty talk, and through him Aetius slipped into the palace. And when the outrage concerning the prefect Domitian and Montius was then dared by Gallus, all the partners in the pollution shared, as was likely, in his destruction. But this man escaped the punishment, having been judged not even worthy 1.1.48 of suffering any evil with the accomplices of the outrage. Upon these things, when the great Athanasius was removed from the church of the Alexandrians by imperial power, and George of Tarbasthena was scattering his people, Aetius was again an Alexandrian, having no less than those being supported by and living as a parasite to the Cappadocian; for he was not unpracticed in flattery, so that George (for he too was a Canaanite and for this reason was well-disposed toward one of the same race and tribe), being long since possessed by the perversion of the doctrine, both rejoiced in him and considered Aetius a windfall placed at his disposal. 1.1.49 These things, therefore, did not escape the notice of his genuine admirer, this Eunomius, who, having observed that the way of life of his own natural father (a most excellent man in other respects except for becoming the father of such a one) was honorable and conventional, but wretched on account of poverty and full of countless toils; for he was a certain farmer, bent over the plow and having much labor concerning his small plot of land, but during the winter when he had leave from his labors concerning the land, by tracing out the first elements and syllables for the children, he resourcefully provided for his livelihood 1.1.50 by means of those wages. Seeing these things, therefore, concerning his own father, having bid farewell to the plow and the hoe and all his father's tools, so that he himself might not also suffer beforehand with similar toils, first he became a student of the wisdom of Prunicus, and having practiced writing for speed, he was at first with someone of his family, I think, having his food as payment for his service in writing; then, tutoring the young boys of the one who supported him, he gradually came to a desire for rhetoric. And I pass over the things in between, both his life in his homeland and for what and with whom he was caught in Constantinople. 1.1.51 And after these things, having occupied himself with a cloak and a belt, as they say, since he saw that everything gathered from his effort in these matters was small and nothing worthy of his desire, leaving behind the remaining pursuits of life, he admired Aetius alone out of all men, not unwisely, I think, at least 1.1.52 for his own purpose, having chosen this for a life plan. For from the time he partook of this secret wisdom, from then on "1everything grows for him unsown and unplowed."2 For he is a certain wise man concerning the things he pursues, and he knew how one might best 1.1.53 the more passionate of

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καταμιγνύμενος τῶν βοώντων εἷς ἦν, καὶ ἐν τῇ τοῦ λόγου τροπῇ τὸ καθ' ἑαυτὸν προτιθεὶς οὐ μικρῶς ἐσπου δάζετο παρὰ τῶν τὸ ἀναιδὲς τῆς φωνῆς πρὸς τὰς ἑαυτῶν φιλονεικίας ἐκμισθουμένων. 1.1.45 Λιπαρωτέρας δὲ διὰ τούτων προσγενομένης αὐτῷ τῆς μάζης οὐκ ἐπιμένειν ᾤετο δεῖν οὐδὲ τούτῳ τῷ βίῳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἰατρικὴν ἐκείνην μετὰ τῆς χαλκευτικῆς κατ' ὀλίγον ὑπαπεδύετο. Ἀρείου δὲ τοῦ θεομάχου τὰ πονηρὰ ταῦτα σπέρματα τῶν ζιζανίων ἐνσπείραντος, ὧν ὁ καρπός ἐστι τῶν Ἀνομοίων τὰ δόγματα, αἱ τῶν ἰατρείων σχολαὶ τηνικαῦτα τοῖς περὶ τοῦ ζητήματος ἐκείνου θορύβοις περιηχοῦντο. 1.1.46 ἐμμελετήσας τοίνυν τῇ τοιαύτῃ διατριβῇ καί τινα συλλογι σμῶν ἔφοδον ἐξ Ἀριστοτελικῶν ἀπηχημάτων παρατηρήσας, ὀνομαστὸς ἦν τὸν πατέρα τῆς αἱρέσεως Ἄρειον τῇ καινότητι τῶν ἐφευρεθέντων ὑπερβαλλόμενος· μᾶλλον δὲ τῶν παρ' ἐκείνου τεθέντων τὴν ἀκολουθίαν κατανοήσας ἀγχίνους τις ἔδοξεν εἶναι καὶ τῶν κρυφίων εὑρετικός, τὸ κτιστὸν καὶ τὸ ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων ἀνόμοιον εἶναι τῷ κτίσαντι καὶ τῷ παραγα γόντι ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος ἀποφηνάμενος. ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν διὰ 1.1.47 τῶν τοιούτων λόγων τὰς φιλοκαίνους τῶν ταῦτα νοσούντων ἀκοὰς ἐγαργάλιζε, γινώσκει τὴν κενοφωνίαν ταύτην καὶ ὁ Βλέμμυς Θεόφιλος, ᾧ συνηθείας τινὸς περὶ τὸν Γάλλον προϋπαρχούσης καὶ ὁ Ἀέτιος εἰς τὰ βασίλεια δι' αὐτοῦ παρεδύετο. τοῦ δὲ περὶ τὸν ὕπαρχον ∆ομετιανὸν καὶ Μόν τιον ἄγους τηνικαῦτα τολμηθέντος τῷ Γάλλῳ, πάντες οἱ κοινωνοὶ τοῦ μιάσματος συμμετεῖχον, ὡς εἰκός, τῆς ἐκείνου καταστροφῆς· ἀλλ' οὗτος ἐκδύνει τὴν τιμωρίαν, οὐδὲ τοῦ παθεῖν τι κακὸν μετὰ τῶν συναιτίων τοῦ ἄγους ἄξιος 1.1.48 εἶναι κριθείς. ἐπὶ τούτοις τοῦ μεγάλου Ἀθανασίου βασιλικῇ δυναστείᾳ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐκκλησίας μετατεθέντος, Γεωργίου δὲ τοῦ Ταρβασθηνίτου τὸν ἐκείνου λαὸν διασπῶν τος, πάλιν Ἀλεξανδρεὺς ὁ Ἀέτιος, οὐδενὸς ἔλαττον ἔχων τῶν ὑποτρεφομένων καὶ παρασιτούντων τῷ Καππαδόκῃ· οὐδὲ γὰρ τῆς κολακείας ἀμελετήτως εἶχεν, ὡς τὸν Γεώργιον (ἦν γὰρ δὴ Χαναναῖος κἀκεῖνος καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πρὸς τὸν ὁμογενῆ καὶ ὁμόφυλον ἐπιτηδείως εἶχε) χαίρειν τε τούτῳ, πάλαι τῇ διαστροφῇ κατειλημμένον τοῦ δόγματος, καὶ εὕρεμα εἶναι τῷ Ἀετίῳ κατ' ἐξουσίαν προκείμενον. 1.1.49 Οὐ τοίνυν λανθάνει ταῦτα τὸν γνήσιον αὐτοῦ ζηλωτὴν Εὐνόμιον τοῦτον, ὃς τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἑαυτοῦ πατρός, βελ τίστου τὰ ἄλλα πλὴν γενέσθαι τοιούτου πατέρα, εὐγνώμονα μὲν καταμαθὼν καὶ νενομισμένην τὴν τοῦ βίου διαγωγήν, μοχθηρὰν δὲ διὰ πενίαν καὶ μυρίων γέμουσαν πόνων· γεωργὸς γάρ τις ἦν ἐπικεκυφὼς τῷ ἀρότρῳ καὶ πολὺν πόνον περὶ τὸ βραχὺ γήδιον ἔχων, διὰ δὲ τοῦ χειμῶνος ὅτε τῶν περὶ τὴν γῆν καμάτων εἶχε τὴν ἄδειαν, τὰ πρῶτα στοιχεῖα καὶ τὰς συλλαβὰς τοῖς παιδίοις ὑποχα ράσσων εὐμηχάνως διὰ τῶν μισθωμάτων ἐκείνων τὰ πρὸς 1.1.50 τὸν βίον ἐπεσιτίζετο· ταῦτα τοίνυν περὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ πατέρα βλέπων ἐρρῶσθαι φράσας τῷ τε ἀρότρῳ καὶ τῇ σμινύῃ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς πατρικοῖς ἐργαλείοις, ὡς ἂν μὴ καὶ αὐτὸς προσταλαιπωροίη τοῖς ὁμοίοις τῶν πόνων, πρῶτον μὲν τῆς Προυνίκου σοφίας γίνεται μαθητής, καὶ γράφειν εἰς τάχος ἐκμελετήσας συνῆν τὰ πρῶτα τῶν ἐκ τοῦ γένους οἶμαί τινι, μισθὸν τῆς ἐν τῷ γράφειν ὑπηρεσίας τὴν τροφὴν ἔχων, εἶτα παιδαγωγῶν τοῦ τρέφοντος αὐτὸν τὰ μειράκια κατ' ὀλίγον εἰς ῥητορικῆς ἐπιθυμίαν προέρχεται. καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ μέσῳ παρίημι, τόν τε ἐπὶ τῆς πατρίδος αὐτοῦ βίον καὶ ἐφ' οἷς ἐν τῇ Κωνσταντινουπόλει κατελήφθη καὶ μετὰ τίνων. 1.1.51 Μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα περὶ χλανίδα καὶ ζώνην ἀσχοληθείς, ὥς φασιν, ἐπειδὴ πάντα μικρὰ καὶ οὐδὲν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἄξιον ἐκ τῆς περὶ ταῦτα σπουδῆς ἑώρα συναγειρόμενον, καταλιπὼν τὰ λοιπὰ τοῦ βίου ἐπιτηδεύματα μόνον ἐξ ἁπάν των ἐθαύμασε τὸν Ἀέτιον, οὐκ ἀσυνέτως οἶμαι, πρός γε 1.1.52 τὸν ἑαυτοῦ σκοπόν, εἰς ἐπίνοιαν βίου τοῦτο ἐπιλεξάμενος. ἀφ' οὗ γὰρ μετέσχε τῆς ἀπορρήτου ταύτης σοφίας, ἐξ ἐκείνου "1πάντα ἄσπαρτα αὐτῷ καὶ ἀνήροτα φύεται."2 σοφὸς γάρ τίς ἐστι περὶ ἃ τὴν σπουδὴν ἔχει, καὶ ἔγνω πῶς ἄν τις μάλιστα 1.1.53 τοὺς ἐμπαθεστέρους τῶν