44.  Why need I enter into further detail?  We were assailed again by the Anti-Christian Emperor,89    Emperor.  Valens. that tyrant of the faith, with more abundant impiety and a hotter onset, inasmuch as the dispute must be with a stronger antagonist, like that unclean and evil spirit, who when sent forth upon his wanderings from man, returns to take up his abode in him again with a greater number of spirits, as we have heard in the Gospels.90    S. Luke xi. 24.  This spirit he imitated, both in renewing the contest in which he had formerly been worsted, and in adding to his original efforts.  He thought that it was a strange and insufferable thing that he, who ruled over so many nations and had won so much renown, and reduced under the power of impiety all those round about him, and overcome every adversary, should be publicly worsted by a single man, and a single city, and so incur the ridicule not only of those patrons of ungodliness by whom he was led, but also, as he supposed, of all men.

Τί τἆλλα χρὴ λέγειν; Ἀλλ' ἧκεν αὖθις ἡμῖν ὁ χριστομάχος βασιλεὺς καὶ τῆς πίστεως τύραννος, μετὰ πλείονος τῆς ἀσεβείας καὶ θερμοτέρας τῆς παρατάξεως, ὡς πρὸς ἀνταγωνιστὴν ἰσχυρότερον ὄντος αὐτῷ τοῦ λόγου, κατὰ τὸ ἀκάθαρτον ἐκεῖνο πνεῦμα καὶ πονηρόν, ὃ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου λυθὲν καὶ περιπλανηθέν, πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν ἀναστρέφει μετὰ πλειόνων πνευμάτων εἰσοικισθησόμενον, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς Εὐαγγελίοις ἠκούσαμεν. Τούτου γίνεται μιμητὴς ἐκεῖνος, ὁμοῦ τε τὴν προτέραν ἧτταν ἀνακαλεσόμενος καὶ προσθήσων τι τοῖς πρώτοις παλαίσμασι: δεινὸν γὰρ εἶναι καὶ σχέτλιον, πολλῶν μὲν ἐθνῶν ἐπάρχοντα, πολλῆς δὲ δόξης ἠξιωμένον, πάντας δὲ τοὺς κύκλῳ καταστρεψάμενον τῷ κράτει τῆς ἀσεβείας, καὶ χειρωσάμενον πᾶν τὸ προστυχόν, ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς καὶ μιᾶς πόλεως ἥττω ὀφθῆναι, καὶ γέλωτα ὄφλειν, οὐ τοῖς ἄγουσι μόνον αὐτὸν προστάταις τῆς ἀθεΐας, ἀλλὰ καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις, ὡς ὑπελάμβανε.