At the request of Eudoxius, Euzoius also promises the deed. 7.6 That, while Aetius and Eunomius were staying in Constantinople, Leontius of Tripolis came to them, and Theodulus from Chaeratopon, and those around Serras and Theophilus and Heliodorus from both Libyas, and as many others as were pleased with the same doctrine, who had not endured to subscribe either to the condemnation of Aetius or to the tome of the Westerns. And having gathered together, they ordain Aetius; and he and Eunomius were everything to them. And they also ordained other bishops, with Eudoxius for the time being not objecting at all, but even often presenting votes to those around Aetius on behalf of those about to be ordained. And at this time Euzoius, having gathered a synod of nine in number, annulled the proceedings that had long ago taken place against Aetius. He also rescinded the six-month deadline after which, for those around Serras, if they should not subscribe to the deposition of Aetius and to the western tome, the penalty was determined to be removal from the priesthood. And when both of the said proceedings had advanced, they were preparing to send the tomes to those around Eudoxius. But the unbearable persecution against the Christians cut short the impulse. 7.7 That the apostate, since, although doing everything, he was in no way able to turn Valentinian, a commander of a military cohort (for he was a count of those called the Cornuti), from his piety, stripped him of his rank and banished him to Thebes in Egypt. They say that this man, when Constantius was reigning, saw one of the so-called silentiaries emitting a flame of fire from his mouth; and that he saw this in the evening, when we take our sleep after a meal, and that he reported these things to Constantius. For when that one had sent him on some business to summon Valentinian, he chanced upon the sight. But Constantius by the report was brought to suspicion and fear, yet he did not at all distress the man; but soothing his own fear, he sends him out to the fortresses of Mesopotamia to be a guardian of the places there and to check the incursions of the Persians. 7.8 That the things concerning the martyr Babylas, and all the outrages Julian committed against that martyr's body, and all that the demons were forced to say, and how the precinct of Apollo with its shrine was reduced to ashes by a thunderbolt, and as many other things as were miraculously wrought, both according to and beyond human nature, this man relates, not greatly differing from the others. And he says that the holy Babylas was martyred with three children, very young indeed, and brothers by birth; and that the martyrdom proceeded from such a beginning. Babylas was bishop of Antioch. They say that to Numerian the emperor of the Romans, or, as some say, Decius, the thought occurred, by some demon, to enter the church while it was full. But the high priest of God, standing at the entrance of the temple, blocked the entrance, saying that as far as he was able, he would not overlook a wolf stealing into the flock. And he was immediately checked from his impulse, whether suspecting a sedition or having changed his mind for some other reason; he first accused the bishop of audacity, and then ordered the holy man to sacrifice to the demons, for this expiation was the only solution to the charge and the source of honor and glory hereafter. But he, having nobly set himself against each of the proposals, bound on the martyr's crown. 7.9 That the apostate, intending to prove false the oracles of the Savior, which say that Jerusalem was overthrown so that not even a stone would remain on a stone, not only accomplished none of the things he strove for, but, even if unwillingly, confirmed what was in the oracles as unchangeable. For he, having gathered the Jews from everywhere and having provided money from his own funds and other resources, permitted them to rebuild the temple. But divinely sent terrors that occurred, surpassing description, not only extinguished their zeal, but also cast both him and the Jews into the utmost helplessness and shame. For on the one hand fire consumed those who dared to work, and on the other hand

Εὐδοξίου τῇ ἀξιώσει, ὑπισχνεῖται καὶ ὁ Εὐζώϊος τὴν πρᾶξιν. 7.6 Ὅτι, ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει διατρίβοντος τοῦ Ἀετίου καὶ Εὐνομίου, παραγίνεται Λεόντιος ὁ τῆς Τριπόλεως πρὸς αὐτοὺς καὶ Θεόδουλος ἀπὸ Χαιρατόπων οἵ τε ἀμφὶ τὸν Σέρραν καὶ Θεόφιλον καὶ Ἡλιόδωρον ἐξ ἑκατέρας Λιβύης, καὶ ὅσοις ἄλλοις γε ἡ αὐτὴ συνήρεσκε δόξα, οἳ μήτε τῇ τοῦ Ἀετίου καταδίκῃ μήτε τῷ τόμῳ τῶν Ἑσπερίων ὑπογράψαι ἠνέσχοντο. καὶ συναθροισθέντες χειροτονοῦσι τὸν Ἀέτιον· καὶ ἦν αὐτοῖς αὐτός τε καὶ Εὐνόμιος ἅπαντα. ἐχειροτόνουν δὲ καὶ ἑτέρους ἐπισκόπους, οὐδὲν τέως τοῦ Εὐδοξίου δυσχεραίνοντος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ψήφους πολλάκις ὑπὲρ τῶν μελλόντων χειροτονεῖσθαι τοῖς περὶ Ἀέτιον προκομίζοντος. ἐν τούτῳ δὲ καὶ Εὐζώϊος, εἰς ἐννέα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἀθροισάμενος σύνοδον, τὰς κατὰ Ἀετίου γεγενημένας πάλαι πράξεις διελύσατο. ἔλυσε δὲ καὶ τὴν τοῦ ἑξαμήνου προθεσμίαν μεθ' ἣν τοῖς περὶ Σέρραν, εἰ μὴ τῇ τοῦ Ἀετίου καθαιρέσει καὶ τῷ ἑσπερίῳ τόμῳ ὑπογράψαιεν, τῆς ἱερωσύνης ἀφαίρεσις ἡ ζημία διωρίζετο. ἑκατέρας δὲ τῶν εἰρημένων προελθούσης πράξεως, τοὺς τόμους ἀποστέλλειν τοῖς περὶ Εὐδόξιον παρεσκευάζοντο. ἀλλ' ὁ κατὰ τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἀνυπόστατος διωγμὸς τὴν ὁρμὴν περιέκοψεν. 7.7 Ὅτι τὸν Οὐαλεντινιανὸν ὁ ἀποστάτης, τάγματος ἐπάρχοντα στρατιωτικοῦ (κόμης γὰρ ἐχρημάτιζεν τῶν λεγομένων κουρνούτων), ἐπεὶ πάντα πράττων οὐδαμῶς αὐτὸν ἴσχυσε τῆς εὐσεβείας μεταστῆσαι, παραλύσας τοῦ ἀξιώματος εἰς Θήβας τὰς Αἰγυπτίας φυγαδεύει. τοῦτόν φασι, ἡνίκα Κωνστάντιος ἐβασίλευσεν, ἰδεῖν τινα τῶν λεγομένων σιλεντιαρίων πυρὸς φλόγα τοῦ στόματος ἀφιέντα· ἰδεῖν δὲ κατὰ τὸ δειλινόν, ἡνίκα μετὰ τροφὴν τὸν ὕπνον αἱρούμεθα, καὶ ταῦτα σημῆναι Κωνσταντίῳ. καὶ γὰρ ἐκείνου πέμψαντος αὐτὸν διά τινα χρείαν μετακαλέσασθαι τὸν Οὐαλεντινιανόν, περιτυχεῖν τῷ θεάματι. ὁ δὲ Κωνστάντιος τῇ ἀγγελίᾳ εἰς ὑπόνοιαν μὲν καὶ δέος κατέστη, οὐ μήν γέ τι παρελύπησε τὸν ἄνδρα· παραμυθούμενος δὲ τὸ οἰκεῖον δέος, περὶ τὰ φρούρια τῆς Μεσοποταμίας ἐκπέμπει φύλακα τῶν ἐκεῖσε τόπων ἐσόμενον καὶ τὰς τῶν Περσῶν ἐπιδρομὰς ἀναστέλλοντα. 7.8 Ὅτι τὰ περὶ τοῦ μάρτυρος Βαβύλα, ὅσα τε Ἰουλιανὸς εἰς τὸ μαρτυρικὸν ἐκεῖνο σῶμα παρῴνησεν, ὅσα τε εἰπεῖν ἐξεβιάσθη τὰ δαιμόνια, καὶ ὅπως κεραυνῷ τὸ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος αὐτῷ καθιδρύματι ἀπετεφρώθη τέμενος, καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα κατὰ ἀνθρώπους τε καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπους παρεδοξοποιήθη, οὐκ ἐπὶ μέγα παραλλάττοντα τοῖς ἄλλοις οὗτος ἱστορεῖ. λέγει δὲ μαρτυρῆσαι τὸν ἱερὸν Βαβύλαν σὺν τρισὶ παισὶ κομιδῇ μὲν νέοις, τὸ γένος δ' ἀδελφοῖς· τὸ δὲ μαρτύριον ἀπ' ἀρχῆς τοιαύτης προβῆναι. ἐπίσκοπος ἦν τῆς Ἀντιοχείας ὁ Βαβύλας. Νουμεριανῷ δὲ τῷ Ῥωμαίων βασιλεῖ ἤ, ὡς ἔνιοι, ∆εκίῳ φασὶ κατὰ δή τινα δαίμονα γνώμην ἐμπεσεῖν πληθυούσης τῆς ἐκκλησίας εἰσελθεῖν ἐν αὐτῇ. τὸν δέ γε τοῦ θεοῦ ἀρχιερέα κατὰ τὰ προπύλαια στάντα τοῦ νεώ, τὴν εἴσοδον ἀποτειχίζειν, φάσκοντα, ὅσα γε δυνατὸς εἴη, μὴ περιόψεσθαι λύκον τῷ ποιμνίῳ παρεισδυόμενον. καὶ τὸν μὲν αὐτίκα τῆς ὁρμῆς ἀνακρουσθῆναι, εἴτε στάσιν ὑπειδόμενον, εἴτε καὶ ἄλλως μεταβουλευσάμενον· τὸν ἐπίσκοπον πρῶτα μὲν τῆς τόλμης αἰτιᾶσθαι, ἔπειτα δὲ κελεύειν τὸν ὅσιον τοῖς δαίμοσι θύειν, μόνην γὰρ εἶναι τὴν ἐξοσίωσιν ταύτην λύσιν τε τοῦ ἐγκλήματος καὶ τῆς μετὰ ταῦτα τιμῆς τε καὶ δόξης πρόξενον. τὸν δέ, γενναίως πρὸς ἕκαστον τῶν προτεινομένων ἀντιταξάμενον, τὸν μαρτυρικὸν ἀναδήσασθαι στέφανον. 7.9 Ὅτι τοὺς τοῦ σωτῆρος χρησμούς, οἳ τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἀνατετράφθαι λέγουσιν ὥστε μηδὲ λίθον ἐπὶ λίθῳ μεῖναι, τούτους ὁ ἀποστάτης εἰς ψεῦδος ἐλέγχειν διανοηθείς, οὐ μόνον οὐδὲν ἤνυσεν ὧν ἐσπούδασεν, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐν τοῖς χρησμοῖς, εἰ καὶ ἄκων, ἐβεβαίωσεν ἀμετάπτωτον. ὁ μὲν γὰρ τοὺς πανταχῆ συναγείρας Ἰουδαίους καὶ οἴκοθεν χρήματα καὶ δύναμιν ἄλλην παρασχών, ἀνακαινίζειν ἐπέτρεπεν τὸ ἱερόν. δείματα δὲ θεήλατα γεγονότα, διήγησιν ὑπερβαίνοντα, οὐ μόνον ἔσβεσαν αὐτῶν τὴν προθυμίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους εἰς ἐσχάτην ἀμηχανίαν καὶ αἰσχύνην κατεστρέψαντο. τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ πῦρ ἐπενέμετο τοὺς ἐργάζεσθαι τολμῶντας, τοῦτο δὲ