Historia ecclesiastica (fragmenta ap. Photium)

 arranged in the shape of letters and it said in the Roman tongue: In this, conquer. 1.7 That he says that even before the synod in Nicaea, this one

 of Europe and having crossed over also into Asia, they overran both Galatia and Cappadocia, and took many captives, both others and those enrolled in

 to distribute a most sufficient [supply] to the inhabitants, and to establish lavishly the other ornament of the state in it, so as to be sufficient f

 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 neithe

 to transfer a precinct but also to bring back Timothy the apostle in like manner from Ephesus of Ionia to the same renowned and venerable house. 3.3

 they were listening to the evangelical readings, and were practicing certain other things which no divine ordinance had commanded. But having reformed

 most powerful, it meets the Tigris especially near Susa. And so, ceasing from its own name, with that one it is dragged down to the Persian gulf. And

 inspiration says, naming it Gihon which those among the Greeks called the Egyptian. This, as one can conjecture, setting out from Paradise, submerges

 resembling something that mutters indistinctly with some anger and vexation and its voice is deeper rather than sharp. The beast is terribly savage a

 Athanasius to permit his shame to be covered up, to desert to his doctrine but nevertheless to pay the penalty very swiftly, with his private parts r

 impious pride, he drives out. From there, therefore, he reaches Cilicia and one of the Borborians, having engaged with him in arguments on behalf of

 while he was staying in Mesopotamia (for the Persian war required this), their eldest sister Constantia (she was the widowed wife of Anaballianus), fe

 to be broken. But when Leontius, the bishop of Antioch, had taught Caesar the contrary to these things, the condemning vote was postponed and not long

 the votes for death, before the one condemned should lose his life by the sword. And it happened as they had striven for. For this reason Julian also

 When news of what had been done by Basil reached Antioch, he both accepts the ordination of the deacon and, having been sent as an envoy to Constantiu

 having been established, Basil on the one hand was the spokesman for those who held the doctrine of the homoousion, while those of the heteroousion pu

 summoning him from Sebasteia of the Armenians, he installs him on the throne in place of Eudoxius, for Eudoxius had already taken possession of Consta

 he says to address the multitude when the feast of the Theophany was at hand, in which their impiety and godlessness is especially laid bare. For the

 that this was set up at the spring inside the city, along with other statues, to offer a pleasing spectacle to those who came there. From the image of

 At the request of Eudoxius, Euzoius also promises the deed. 7.6 That, while Aetius and Eunomius were staying in Constantinople, Leontius of Tripolis c

 an earthquake buried them and other calamities were allotted to others, and the audacity that had practiced shaming the Lord's words proclaimed, unkn

 thus also most wretchedly he was driven from life. And a certain Theotecnus, having lapsed into Hellenism, his entire flesh having rotted at once and

 Oribasius from Sardis was with him but the wound, mocking all medical treatment, after three days released Julian from life, having completed five ye

 and they sent Marinus. The letter complained of the ordination of Aetius, as having been performed contrary to rule, especially because after his depo

 still a youth, having placed him on the throne, trained him in his own ways. 8.9 That this man says that Hypatia, the daughter of Theon, was trained b

 having arrived at Constantinople, he held Eudoxius in honor. And though he was most able to put an end to the promises to Eunomius, Eudoxius did not h

 (These were brothers, and they were both with Eunomius and had been slandered with him), so he, with much authority, both having threatened the one wh

 their votes commanded. But the one who was ordained immediately and splendidly preached the homoousion. 9.14 That, when Euzoius of Antioch died, Dorot

 about to be appointed over the East. 9.19 That the emperor Theodosius, having engaged the barbarians at Sirmium (for he arrived there immediately upon

 thither because he composed treatises against Basil, the bishop of that place. From there he was allowed to live on his own estates Dacoreni was the

 A Syrian was five cubits in size and had a span as an addition, although his feet did not correspond to the height of the rest of his body, but were b

 seized by the disease of dropsy, he ended his life, having reigned for sixteen years, reigning in all and ending at the lofty boundaries of life for

 to have him sent from the palace more quickly, just as she was, holding her children in each arm, she approaches her husband and both wailing and at

 intending to act against the Romans. From there Trigibildus, as if having escaped Gaïnas, attacked and ravaged both Pisidia and Pamphylia then, after

 The barbarians who were with him took his son and departed with all speed. And having approached Rome, they allowed the one to take refuge in one of t

 having cast a covetous eye, he received the same punishment. But Heraclian, imitating these men and mounting higher on the laughter of fortune, had a

 often the divine, for the education of men, uses these things. For the Red Sea, though it would have been easier to part it all at once, He first lash

 A battle having occurred involving those around Aspar, much slaughter flowed on both sides. Then Aetius makes a treaty with Placidia and Valentinian a

When news of what had been done by Basil reached Antioch, he both accepts the ordination of the deacon and, having been sent as an envoy to Constantius to annul the decrees, is captured on the road by the party of Basil and exiled to Midaeum, a city of Phrygia; and Aetius, having fallen under the power of Basil's party, was held in exile at Pepuza in Phrygia; while Eudoxius withdrew to his own country, Armenia. But others also were consigned to exile, subjected to the votes of Basil's party, their total number amounting to seventy. 4.9 That the party of Basil, having accomplished all these things, went everywhere establishing the homoousion; and as many were persuaded, they also drew over Macedonius of Constantinople, although he had previously inclined to the party of Eunomius, nevertheless to their own opinion, and also many other bishops, some by bringing them over with arguments, others by mixing force with persuasion. 4.10 That he says Patrophilus of Scythopolis and Narcissus of Irenopolis and others with them, having arrived at Singidunum in Mysia, informed Constantius of the things contrived by Basil; and that he, being astonished and greatly distressed, released from exile those who had been condemned, and ordered two synods to be held, one at Ariminum assembling those from the West, and the other at Nicomedia for those from the East, Libya, and Thrace, which were to submit the statements of each party to scrutiny. But the synod at Nicomedia, as this impious man falsely reports, when the majority had inclined towards the homoousion, an earthquake stops it, which, shaking down the church in which they were meeting upon those who had arrived first, who numbered fifteen, along with its bishop Cecropius, destroys them. But the one at Ariminum, which convened with three hundred men, completely rejected the term 'substance', and having proclaimed the Son 'like' the Father according to the Scriptures, they secured this with their own signatures. 4.11 That, when Nicomedia was destroyed by earthquake and fire and inundation of the sea, as this man says, and many people had perished, the synod is convened in Seleucia; since Basil's party had declined Nicaea, and the party of Eudoxius and Aetius had not accepted Tarsus. But Basil's party, having split the synod by machinations and having met by themselves, ratified 'like in substance', and they depose those who opposed them, having renounced the 'different in substance', and they themselves on their own authority ordain Anianus bishop of Antioch; yet the party of Eudoxius and Aetius, having confirmed in writing the 'different in substance', send the tome everywhere. 4.12 But the emperor, learning these things, ordered everyone to come to Constantinople, and indeed almost all from the West and the East and Libya gathered. The leaders of those who advocated 'like in substance' were Basil and Eustathius; with whom another Basil and others were present as supporters, he still holding the rank of deacon, surpassing many in the power of speaking, but through faintheartedness shrinking from the public contests. Of those for 'different in substance' were Aetius and Eunomius, who were supreme in ability, each holding the rank of deacon; but the bishops filling the chorus of secondary actors were Maris and Eudoxius, who was at that time bishop of Antioch, but later also assumed the throne of Constantinople, and indeed Acacius of Caesarea in Palestine, feigning agreement in doctrine with them in order to vex in turn the party of Basil, because they too held in honor Cyril of Jerusalem, who had been stopped by him from priestly service. And Acacius was bold in contests, quick to comprehend the nature of a matter, and able to declare in speech what he had understood. For which reason, the documents of this synod (and there are many) were composed by this man alone. Into a contest of doctrines, therefore, of each party

ὑπὸ Βασιλείου πραχθέντων καταλαβούσης τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν, τήν τε χειροτονίαν τοῦ διακόνου ὑποδέχεται καὶ πρέσβυς ἀποσταλεὶς πρὸς Κωνστάντιον ἀναλῦσαι τὰ ἐψηφισμένα, ἁλίσκεται κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀμφὶ Βασίλειον καὶ εἰς Μιδάειον φυγαδεύεται, πόλιν τῆς Φρυγίας· τὸν δὲ Ἀέτιον, ὑπὸ τὴν ἐξουσίαν πεσόντα τῶν ἀμφὶ τὸν Βασίλειον, ὑπερόριον ἡ Πέπουζα τῆς Φρυγίας εἶχεν· Εὐδόξιος δὲ εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδα ὑπεχώρησεν τὴν Ἀρμενίαν. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἕτεροι ταῖς ὑπερορίαις ἐδόθησαν, ταῖς περὶ τὸν Βασίλειον ὑπαγόμενοι ψήφοις, ὧν ὁ ἀριθμὸς εἰς ἑβδομήκοντα σύμπας ἐκεφαλαιοῦτο. 4.9 Ὅτι οἱ ἀμφὶ Βασίλειον ταῦτα διαπραξάμενοι πάντα, πανταχοῦ φοιτῶντες, τὸ ὁμοούσιον συνεκρότουν· καὶ πολλῶν πειθομένων καὶ τὸν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Μακεδόνιον, καίτοι τοῖς περὶ Εὐνόμιον προαποκεκλιμένον, εἰς τὴν ἑαυτῶν ὅμως ἐπεσπάσαντο δόξαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολλοὺς ἑτέρους τῶν ἐπισκόπων, τοὺς μὲν ὑπάγοντες λόγοις, τοὺς δὲ τῇ πειθῷ συνεπικεραννύντες τὴν βίαν. 4.10 Ὅτι Πατρόφιλον τὸν Σκυθοπόλεως καὶ Νάρκισσον τὸν Εἰρηνουπόλεως καὶ ἑτέρους σὺν αὐτοῖς, ἐν Σιγγηδόνι τῆς Μυσίας παραγενομένους, τὸν Κωνστάντιόν φησιν ἀναδιδάξαι τὰ παρὰ τοῦ Βασιλείου δεδραματουργημένα· καὶ τὸν καταπλαγέντα καὶ ὑπεραλγήσαντα τῶν μὲν μεθορίων τοὺς κατεψηφισμένους ἀνεῖναι, συνόδους δὲ γενέσθαι προστάξαι δύο, τὴν μὲν ἐν Ἀριμήνῳ τοὺς ἀπὸ ∆ύσεως συναλίζουσαν, τὴν δὲ τοὺς ἐξ Ἑῴας καὶ Λιβύης καὶ Θρᾴκης ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ, αἳ τὰ παρ' ἑκατέρου μέρους λεγόμενα δοκιμασίαις ἔμελλον παραβάλλειν. ἀλλὰ τὴν μὲν ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ, ὡς οὗτος ὁ δυσσεβὴς δυσφημεῖ, τῶν πλειόνων πρὸς τὸ ὁμοούσιον νενευκότων, σεισμὸς ἀναστέλλει, ὃς τοῖς προκαταλαβοῦσιν, εἰς δεκαπέντε τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἀνηνεγμένοις, ἅμα τοῦ ταύτης ἐπισκόπου Κεκροπίου ἐπικατασείσας τὸν ναὸν ἐν ᾧ συνεδρίαζον διαφθείρει. ἡ δὲ ἐν Ἀριμήνῳ εἰς τριακοσίους ἄνδρας συνελθοῦσα τὸ μὲν τῆς οὐσίας ὄνομα εἰς τὸ παντελὲς διώσατο, ὅμοιον δὲ τὸν υἱὸν τῷ πατρὶ κατὰ τὰς γραφὰς ἀνακηρύξασα ὑπογραφαῖς ἰδίαις κατησφαλίσαντο. 4.11 Ὅτι, τῆς Νικομηδείας σεισμῷ καὶ πυρὶ καὶ θαλάσσης ἐπικλύσει κατερειπωθείσης, ὡς οὗτος λέγει, καὶ πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων διαφθαρέντων, ἡ σύνοδος ἐν Σελευκείᾳ τὴν σύστασιν λαμβάνει· τῶν μὲν περὶ Βασίλειον τὴν Νίκαιαν παραιτησαμένων, τῶν δὲ ἀμφὶ τὸν Εὐδόξιον καὶ Ἀέτιον τὴν Ταρσὸν οὐ προσηκαμένων. οἱ δὲ περὶ Βασίλειον, μηχαναῖς τὴν σύνοδον διαστήσαντες καὶ καθ' ἑαυτοὺς συνεδριάσαντες, κυροῦσι μὲν τὸ κατ' οὐσίαν ὅμοιον, τοὺς δ' ἀντιφερομένους καθαιροῦσιν, ἀποκηρύξαντες τὸ ἑτεροούσιον, καὶ χειροτονοῦσιν αὐτοὶ καθ' ἑαυτοὺς ἐπίσκοπον τῆς Ἀντιοχείας Ἀνιανόν· πλήν γε καὶ οἱ περὶ Εὐδόξιον καὶ Ἀέτιον, τὸ ἑτεροούσιον ἐγγράφως κρατυνάμενοι, πανταχοῦ τὸν τόμον διαπέμπουσιν. 4.12 Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ταῦτα μαθὼν προσέταξεν ἅπαντας εἰς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἀπαντᾶν, καὶ δὴ συναθροίζονται ἔκ τε τῶν Ἑσπερίων καὶ τῆς Ἑῴας καὶ Λιβύης μικροῦ σύμπαντες. προειστήκεισαν δὲ τῶν μὲν κατ' οὐσίαν ὅμοιον πρεσβευόντων Βασίλειός τε καὶ Εὐστάθιος· οἷς ἄλλοι τε καὶ Βασίλειος ἕτερος παρῆν συνασπίζων, διακόνων ἔτι τάξιν ἔχων, δυνάμει μὲν τοῦ λέγειν πολλῶν προφέρων, τῷ δὲ τῆς γνώμης ἀθαρσεῖ πρὸς τοὺς κοινοὺς ὑποστελλόμενος ἀγῶνας. τῶν δὲ τὸ ἑτεροούσιον Ἀέτιος μὲν καὶ Εὐνόμιος ὑπῆρχον, οἱ τὴν δύναμιν ἄκροι, διακόνων ἑκάτερος βαθμὸν ἀνέχων· ἐπίσκοποι δὲ δευτεραγωνιστῶν χορὸν ἐκπληροῦντες Μάρις τε καὶ Εὐδόξιος, ὁ τότε τῆς Ἀντιοχείας ἐπισκοπήσας, ὕστερον δὲ καὶ τὸν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ὑπελθὼν θρόνον, καὶ δὴ καὶ Ἀκάκιος ὁ τῆς Παλαιστίνων Καισαρείας, τὴν πρὸς ἐκείνους ὑποκρινόμενος ὁμοδοξίαν ἐφ' ᾧ τοὺς περὶ Βασίλειον ἀντιλυπῆσαι, διότι κἀκεῖνοι Κύριλλον, τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων ὑπ' αὐτοῦ παυθέντα τοῦ ἱερᾶσθαι, διὰ τιμῆς ἔφερον. ἦν δὲ ὁ Ἀκάκιος μὲν θαρσαλέος μὲν ἐν τοῖς ἀγῶσι, διανοηθῆναί τε πράγματος φύσιν ὀξὺς καὶ λόγῳ δηλῶσαι τὸ γνωσθὲν ἱκανός. ἐξ οὗ καὶ τὰ ταύτης τῆς συνόδου γράμματα (πολλὰ δέ ἐστιν) οὗτος ἦν μόνος ὁ διατιθέμενος. Εἰς ἅμιλλαν οὖν δογμάτων ἑκατέρας μοίρας