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of the spirit". And Lucius said: "From where do you conjecture these things", he said, "that you say?" And he said: "I do not conjecture, but I know clearly; for you fight against the apostolic doctrines and utter contrary things, and the unlawful deeds concur with your blasphemous words. For what impious man on account of you has not reviled the ecclesiastical assemblies? Who of the praiseworthy men has not been driven out? What barbarian savagery have the things dared by you each day not concealed?" These things the one said courageously, but the other, seething with murder, heard; and though he longed for slaughter, he feared lest he might again kindle the war that had ceased. For which reason indeed he ordered him to be brought to other bishops whom that one had requested. Having received the high-priestly grace with this admirable faith, he went to those who had requested him and with the apostolic 262 teachings and miracles he guided them to the truth. In Alexandria, therefore, such things were dared by Lucius and were ordained by divine providence. But in Constantinople, those of the unholy faction, having filled a vessel with pious presbyters, let it go unballasted into the open sea; then, having embarked some of their accomplices on another ferry-boat, they ordered them to set fire to the vessel of the presbyters. When this was done, battling with fire and sea, they were at last sent to the deep and bound on the crown of martyrdom. And in Antioch, Valens, having spent a very long time, had given license to all, both Greeks and Jews and the others who, bearing the name of Christians, preach things contrary to the evangelical teachings. For indeed those enslaved to error performed the Greek rites, and he allowed the deceit, which after Julian had been extinguished by Jovian, to flourish again; and they did not fulfill the Diasia and the Dionysia and the orgies of Demeter in a corner as in a pious reign, but ran raving through the middle of the marketplace. But he was an enemy only to those who held to the apostolic teaching. For first he drove them out of the sacred 263 houses; for the all-praised Jovian had given them also the newly built church. But when, coming together at the foot of the mountain, they both honored the Master with hymns and enjoyed the divine oracles, enduring the contrary assaults of the air, sometimes of rain and snow and frost, and at other times of most violent heat, he did not allow them to partake even of this laborious benefit, but sending soldiers, he dispersed them. But Flavian and Diodorus, like certain breakwaters, broke the assailing waves. For with Meletius their shepherd being forced to live far away, these men took care of the flock, opposing to the wolves their own courage and wisdom, and offering to the sheep the fitting care. Therefore, having been driven out from the foot of the mountain, they pastured the sheep by the banks of the neighboring river. For they did not endure, like the captives in Babylon, to "hang up their instruments," but they hymned the maker and benefactor "in every place of his dominion." But the enemy only of those who theologized Christ the Master did not even bear the assembly of the pious in this place. So again, therefore, the pair of those wonderful under-shepherds, gathering the divine sheep into the military gymnasium, showed them the spiritual pasture. And Dio- 264 dorus, the most wise and most courageous, like some transparent and great river, on the one hand offered irrigation to his own, and on the other hand flooded the blasphemies of his opponents. And on the one hand he did not reckon the nobility of his family, but on the other hand he gladly endured hardship for the faith. But Flavian the best, himself also descended from noblemen, considered piety alone to be nobility, and like some trainer, he anointed the great Diodorus as if he were a pentathlete. For at that time he did not speak publicly in the ecclesiastical assemblies, but to those doing this much

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τοῦ πνεύματος". ὁ δὲ Λούκιος· "πόθεν ταῦτα", ἔφη, "τοπάζων λέγεις;" ὁ δέ· "οὐ τοπάζω", εἶπεν, "ἀλλ' οἶδα σαφῶς· τοῖς τε γὰρ ἀποστολικοῖς δόγμασι διαμάχῃ καὶ ἀντίπαλα φθέγγῃ, καὶ τοῖς βλασφήμοις λόγοις συμβαίνει τὰ παρανόμως γιγνόμενα. τίς γὰρ διὰ σὲ δυσσεβὴς τοῖς ἐκκλησιαστικοῖς συλλόγοις οὐκ ἐπεκώμασεν; τίς τῶν ἀξιεπαίνων ἀνδρῶν οὐκ ἐλήλαται; ποίαν θηριωδίαν βαρβαρικὴν οὐκ ἀπέκρυψε τὰ παρὰ σοῦ καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν τολμώμενα;" ταῦτα ὁ μὲν θαρραλέως ἔλεγεν, ὁ δὲ φονῶν ἤκουε· καὶ σφαγῆς μὲν ἐφίετο, ἐδεδίει δὲ μὴ πάλιν ἐξάψῃ τὸν διαπαυσάμενον πόλεμον. οὗ δὴ χάριν ἑτέροις αὐτὸν ἐπισκόποις προσαχθῆναι προσέταξεν οὓς ἐκεῖνος ἐξῄ τησε. μετὰ τῆσδε τῆς ἀξιαγάστου πίστεως τὴν ἀρχιερατικὴν εἰσδε ξάμενος χάριν, πρὸς τοὺς αἰτήσαντας παρεγένετο καὶ ταῖς ἀποστο 262 λικαῖς διδασκαλίαις τε καὶ θαυματουργίαις πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπο δήγησεν. ἐν μὲν οὖν τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ τοιαῦτα ὑπό τε Λουκίου ἐτολ μήθη καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς θείας προμηθείας ᾠκονομήθη. Ἐν δὲ Κωνσταντινουπόλει σκάφος εὐσεβῶν πρεσβυτέρων ἐμπλή σαντες οἱ τῆς ἀνοσίου συμμορίας ἀφῆκαν ἀνερμάτιστον εἰς τὸ πέλα γος· εἶτα, τινὰς τῶν ὁμογνωμόνων εἰς πορθμεῖον ἕτερον ἐμβιβάσαντες, πῦρ ἐπαφεῖναι τῷ σκάφει τῶν πρεσβυτέρων ἐκέλευσαν. οὗ γενομέ νου, πυρὶ καὶ θαλάττῃ μαχόμενοι τέλος τῷ βυθῷ παρεπέμφθησαν καὶ τοῦ μαρτυρίου τὸν στέφανον ἀνεδήσαντο. Ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ δὲ ὁ Βάλης χρόνον διατρίψας ὅτι μάλιστα πλεῖστον, ἅπασι μὲν ἄδειαν ἐδεδώκει καὶ Ἕλλησι καὶ Ἰουδαίοις καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ὅσοι τὸ Χριστιανῶν ὄνομα περικείμενοι τἀναντία ταῖς εὐαγγελικαῖς διδασκαλίαις κηρύττουσι. καὶ γὰρ τὰς Ἑλληνικὰς τελετὰς ἐπετέλουν οἱ τῇ πλάνῃ δεδουλωμένοι, καὶ τὴν μετὰ Ἰουλιανὸν ὑπὸ Ἰοβιανοῦ σβεσθεῖσαν ἐξαπάτην ἀνθῆσαι πάλιν συνεχώρησεν οὗτος· καὶ τὰ ∆ιά σια καὶ τὰ ∆ιονύσια καὶ τὰ τῆς ∆ήμητρος ὄργια οὐκ ἐν παραβύστῳ ἐπλήρουν ὡς ἐν εὐσεβεῖ βασιλείᾳ, ἀλλὰ διὰ μέσης τῆς ἀγορᾶς βακχεύ οντες ἔτρεχον. μόνοις δὲ πολέμιος ἦν τοῖς τὴν ἀποστολικὴν διδα σκαλίαν πρεσβεύουσι. πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ αὐτοὺς τῶν ἱερῶν ἐξήλασεν 263 οἴκων· αὐτοῖς γὰρ Ἰοβιανὸς ὁ πανεύφημος ἐδεδώκει καὶ τὴν νεόδμητον ἐκκλησίαν. ἐπειδὴ δὲ παρὰ τὴν τοῦ ὄρους συνιόντες κρηπίδα ὕμνοις τε τὸν δεσπότην ἐγέραιρον καὶ τῶν θείων λογίων ἀπήλαυον, τῶν ἐναντίων τοῦ ἀέρος ἀνεχόμενοι προσβολῶν καὶ ποτὲ μὲν ὑετοῦ καὶ νιφετοῦ καὶ κρυμοῦ, ποτὲ δὲ σφοδροτάτου φλογμοῦ, οὐδὲ τῆς ἐπιπόνου ταύτης ὠφελείας αὐτοὺς μεταλαχεῖν συνεχώρησεν, ἀλλ' ἀποστείλας στρατιώτας ἐσκέδασεν. Ἀλλὰ Φλαβιανὸς καὶ ∆ιόδωρος, καθάπερ τινὲς πρόβολοι, τὰ προσ βάλλοντα διέλυον κύματα. Μελετίου γὰρ τοῦ σφετέρου ποιμένος ἑκὰς διάγειν ἠναγκασμένου, οὗτοι τῆς ποίμνης ἐπεμελοῦντο, τοῖς μὲν λύκοις ἀντιτάττοντες τὴν οἰκείαν ἀνδρείαν τε καὶ σοφίαν, τοῖς δὲ προβάτοις προσφέροντες τὴν ἁρμόττουσαν θεραπείαν. ἐκ δὴ οὖν τῆς ὑπωρείας ἐξελαθέντες παρὰ τὰς ὄχθας τοῦ γείτονος ποταμοῦ τὰ πρό βατα ἔνεμον. οὐ γὰρ ἠνέσχοντο κατὰ τοὺς ἐν Βαβυλῶνι δορυαλώτους " κρεμάσαι τὰ ὄργανα ", ἀλλ' ὕμνουν τὸν ποιητήν τε καὶ εὐεργέτην " ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ τῆς δεσποτείας αὐτοῦ ". ἀλλ' οὐδὲ τὴν ἐν τῷδε τῷ χωρίῳ σύνοδον ἤνεγκε τῶν εὐσεβῶν ὁ μόνων τῶν τὸν δεσπότην Χριστὸν θεολογούντων πολέμιος. πάλιν δὴ οὖν τῶν θαυμασίων ἐκείνων ὑποποιμένων ἡ ξυνωρίς, εἰς τὸ πολεμικὸν γυμνάσιον τὰ θεῖα πρόβατα συναγείρουσα, τὴν πνευματικὴν ἐπεδείκνυ πόαν. καὶ ∆ιό 264 δωρος μὲν ὁ σοφώτατός τε καὶ ἀνδρειότατος, οἷά τις ποταμὸς διειδής τε καὶ μέγας, τοῖς μὲν οἰκείοις τὴν ἀρδείαν προσέφερε, τὰς δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων βλασφημίας ἐπέκλυζε. καὶ τὴν μὲν τοῦ γένους οὐκ ἐλογί ζετο περιφάνειαν, τὴν δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆς πίστεως ταλαιπωρίαν ἀσπασίως ὑπέμενεν. Φλαβιανὸς δὲ ὁ ἄριστος ἐξ εὐπατριδῶν μὲν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπεφύκει, εὐγένειαν δὲ τὴν εὐσέβειαν ὑπελάμβανε μόνην, καὶ οἷόν τις παιδοτρίβης τὸν μέγαν ∆ιόδωρον καθάπερ τινὰ πένταθλον ἤλειφεν ἀθλητήν. κατ' ἐκεῖνον γὰρ τὸν καιρὸν ἐν μὲν τοῖς ἐκκλησιαστικοῖς οὐκ ἐδημηγόρει συλλόγοις, τοῖς δὲ τοῦτο δρῶσι πολλὴν