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was sent by Valentinian the emperor, who was staying there, to stop the sedition, being still unbaptized, but very much caring for justice and nobly rebuking the greater rulers when they did wrong. So the people, having ceased from their strife, unanimously voted Ambrose bishop; which when Valentinian heard, he ordered Ambrose to be initiated and ordained bishop, giving thanks to God in the sight of all and saying: "Thanks to you, Lord Almighty, our Savior, that you have entrusted souls to this man who was made by me a governor of bodies, and you have shown my votes to be just." But Lucius in Alexandria committed many evils with the Arians. For they sang songs of demons in the church of Theonas and brought in dancers, 61 and stripping the clothing off the virgins, with rage they would strike them on the nose and lead them naked through the city, treating them licentiously; and some they even killed, not even giving their bodies for burial to their parents who were weeping excessively. And they brought a licentious boy inside to the altar to commit shameful acts. Since the entire West held the consubstantial Trinity, they requested Valentinian and held a synod in Illyricum and confirmed the faith of Nicaea. And Valentinian wrote an edict to the bishops in Asia and Phrygia and all the East, instructing them to abide by what was decreed by the synod, taking Valens his brother and Gratian his son as partners in the edict. At that time also Gregory the Theologian presided over the church in Constantinople at the suggestions of Basil and Meletius and the rest of the champions of piety. And if he had not arrived in time and recalled the city, the whole of it would have been filled with the outrage of Arius and Eunomius; for they held all the churches except the oratory of Anastasia the martyr; and Demophilus was the bishop of the Arians. At that time Gregory of Nyssa and Peter, the brothers of Basil, were shining forth, as well as Optimus in Pisidia and Amphilochius in Iconium. But Barses, the bishop of Edessa, and Pelagius of Laodicea, Valens exiled as champions of orthodoxy. Valentinian reproached Valens his brother as heterodox, not sending him help when he asked for it against the Goths, but saying: "it is not right to assist a man who fights against God." 11. 2. 23. 5. 9. 2. 3. In this year Valentinian the Great died at the age of 84, having reigned for 11 years, in the following manner: The Sauromatae, a [small and] wretched nation, having risen up against him and been defeated, sent ambassadors asking for peace. And when Valentinian asked the ambassadors if all the Sauromatae were so wretched in their bodies, and they said, "You have here and see the best of all," he cried out violently and said: "The empire of the Romans suffers terrible things, having ended up with Valentinian, if such Sauromatae rise up against the Romans." And from the exertion and the clapping 62 of his hands, a vein burst and a great deal of blood was given up, he died in a certain fort of Gaul on the 17th of the month Dios, in the 3rd indiction. But when Gratian, his son, was not found there, and Valens was staying in Antioch, the army that was found in the place where Valentinian the Great died, proclaimed Valentinian, his son, about 4 years old, as Augustus, with Justina, his mother, also being present in Pannonia. When Gratian learned this, he had his brother as co-emperor with himself, but he punished those who had proclaimed him in various ways because this had happened against his will. And Valens sent Trajan as general against the Goths, who, having been defeated, returned in disgrace. And being reproached for cowardice by Valens, he answered: "It is not I who have been defeated, O emperor, but you, who are warring against God and procuring his favor for the barbarians." And Valens put many to death because of those suspected from oracles of reigning, whose names began with the letter Theta, among whom was also Theodorus

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ἐπέμφθη ὑπὸ Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως ἐκεῖσε διάγοντος κωλῦσαι τὴν στάσιν, ἀβάπτιστος μὲν ἔτι ὤν, πάνυ δὲ τοῦ δικαίου φροντίζων καὶ τοὺς μείζονας ἄρχοντας γενναίως διελέγχων ἀδικοῦντας. ὁ οὖν δῆμος παυσάμενος τῆς ἔριδος, ὁμοφώνως τὸν Ἀμβρόσιον ἐπίσκοπον ἐψηφίσαντο· ὅπερ ἀκούσας Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ἐκέλευσε μυηθέντα χειροτονηθῆναι τὸν Ἀμβρόσιον ἐπίσκοπον, εὐχαριστῶν ἐπ' ὄψεσι πάντων τῷ θεῷ καὶ λέγων· "χάρις σοι, δέσποτα παντοκράτορ, σῶτερ ἡμέτερε, ὅτι ψυχὰς ἐνεχείρισας τῷδε τῷ ἀνδρὶ σωμάτων ἄρχοντι παρ' ἐμοῦ γενομένῳ, καὶ τὰς ἐμὰς ψήφους δικαίας ἀπέφηνας." Λούκιος δὲ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ πολλὰ κακὰ σὺν τοῖς Ἀρειανοῖς διεπράξατο. ᾠδὰς γὰρ δαιμόνων εἰς τὴν Θεωνᾶ ἐκκλησίαν ᾖδον καὶ ὀρχηστὰς 61 εἰσῆγον, τῶν παρθένων τε τὰς ἐσθῆτας ἀποσκεπάζοντες, σὺν θυμῷ ῥινοκτυποῦντες γυμνὰς διὰ τῆς πόλεως περιῆγον, ἀσελγῶς αὐταῖς χρώμενοι· τὰς δὲ καὶ ἀνεῖλον μηδὲ πρὸς ταφὴν δόντες τοῖς γονεῦσι τὰ σώματα αὐτῶν λίαν ὀδυρομένοις. εἰς δὲ τὸ θυσιαστήριον ἔνδον μειράκιον ἀσελγὲς αἰσχρουργῆσαι ἀνήγαγον. τῆς δὲ δύσεως πάσης τριάδα ὁμοούσιον πρεσβευούσης, ᾐτήσαντο Οὐαλεντινιανὸν καὶ ἐποίησαν σύνοδον ἐν τῷ Ἰλλυρικῷ καὶ τὴν ἐν Νικαίᾳ πίστιν ἐκύρωσαν. ἴδικτον δὲ Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ἔγραψε τοῖς ἐν Ἀσίᾳ καὶ Φρυγίᾳ καὶ πάσῃ τῇ ἀνατολῇ ἐπισκόποις ἐμμένειν τοῖς ὡρισμένοις παρὰ τῆς συνόδου παρεγγυώμενος, κοινωνὸν καὶ Οὐάλεντα τὸν ἀδελφὸν καὶ Γρατιανὸν τὸν υἱὸν ἐν τῷ ἰδίκτῳ προσλαβόμενος. τότε καὶ Γρηγόριος ὁ Θεολόγος τῆς κατὰ Κωνσταντινούπολιν ἐκκλησίας προέστη ταῖς Βασιλείου καὶ Μελετίου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν τῆς εὐσεβείας ὑπερμάχων εἰσηγήσεσιν. καὶ εἰ μὴ φθάσας τὴν πόλιν ἀνεκαλέσατο, πᾶσα ἂν τῆς Ἀρείου καὶ Εὐνομίου λώβης ἐπεπλήρωτο· πάσας γὰρ τὰς ἐκκλησίας αὐτοὶ κατεῖχον πλὴν τοῦ εὐκτηρίου Ἀναστασίας τῆς μάρτυρος· ἐπισκόπει δὲ τῶν Ἀρειανῶν ∆ημόφιλος. Γρηγόριος τότε ὁ Νύσης καὶ Πέτρος, ἀδελφοὶ Βασιλείου, διέλαμπον Ὄπτιμός τε ἐν Πισιδίᾳ καὶ Ἀμφιλόχιος ἐν Ἰκονίῳ. Βάρσην δέ, τὸν ἐπίσκοπονἘδέσης, καὶ Πελάγιον Λαοδικείας ὡς προμάχους τῆς ὀρθοδοξίας ὁ Οὐάλης ἐξώρισεν. Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ὠνείδισεν Οὐάλεντα τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὡς κακόδοξον, μὴ πέμψας αὐτῷ βοήθειαν κατὰ τῶν Γότθων αἰτοῦντι, ἀλλ' εἰπών· "οὐ θέμις ἐπαμύνειν ἀνδρὶ θεομάχῳ." ιαʹ. βʹ. κγʹ. εʹ. θʹ. βʹ. γʹ. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ὁ μέγας ἐτελεύτησεν ἐτῶν πδʹ, βασιλεύσας ἔτη ιαʹ, τρόπῳ τοιῷδε· Σαυρομάται, ἔθνος [μικρόν τε καὶ] οἰκτρόν, ἐπαναστάντες αὐτῷ καὶ ἡττηθέντες πρέσβεις ἔπεμψαν αἰτοῦντες τὴν εἰρήνην. Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ δὲ τοὺς πρέσβεις ἐρωτῶντος, εἰ πάντες οἱ Σαυρομάται τοιοῦτοί εἰσι τοῖς σώμασιν οἰκτροί, καὶ αὐτῶν εἰπόντων, ὅτι "τοὺς κρείττονας πάντων ὧδε ἔχεις καὶ ὁρᾷς," ἀνακράξας βιαίως ἔφη· "δεινὰ Ῥωμαίων ἡ βασιλεία ὑπομένει εἰς Οὐαλεντινιανὸν λήξασα, εἰ Σαυρομάται τοιοῦτοι ὄντες Ῥωμαίων κατεξανίστανται." ἐκ δὲ τῆς διατάσεως καὶ τοῦ κρότου 62 τῶν χειρῶν φλεβὸς ῥαγείσης καὶ πλείστου ἀναδοθέντος αἵματος, ἔν τινι φρουρίῳ Γαλλίας θνήσκει μηνὶ ∆ίῳ ιζʹ ἰνδικτιῶνος γʹ. Γρατιανοῦ δέ, τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, μὴ εὑρεθέντος ἐκεῖσε, καὶ Οὐάλεντος ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ διάγοντος, τὸ εὑρεθὲν στρατόπεδον ἐν τῷ τόπῳ, ἐν ᾧ ἐτελεύτησεν Οὐαλεντινιανὸς ὁ μέγας, Οὐαλεντινιανόν, τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἐτῶν δ' ἀνηγόρευσαν Αὔγουστον, συμπαρούσης καὶ Ἰουστίνης, τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῇ Πανονίᾳ. τοῦτο μαθὼν Γρατιανὸς τὸν μὲν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ εἶχε συμβασιλεύοντα μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ, τοὺς δὲ ἀναγορεύσαντας διαφόροις τρόποις ἐτιμωρήσατο διὰ τὸ παρὰ γνώμην αὐτοῦ τοῦτο γενέσθαι. Οὐάλης δὲ κατὰ Γότθων Τραϊανὸν στρατηγὸν πέμπει, ὃς ἡττηθεὶς ἀτίμως ἀνέκαμψεν. ὀνειδιζόμενος δὲ μαλακίαν ὑπὸ Οὐάλεντος ἀπεκρίνατο· "οὐκ ἐγὼ ἥττημαι, βασιλεῦ, ἀλλὰ σύ, ὁ κατὰ θεοῦ στρατευόμενος καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ ῥοπὴν προξενῶν τοῖς βαρβάροις." πολλοὺς δὲ ἀνεῖλεν Οὐάλης διὰ τοὺς ἐκ τῶν μαντειῶν ὑπονοηθέντας βασιλεύειν ἀπὸ τοῦ Θ στοιχείου, ἐν οἷς καὶ Θεόδωρόν