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wishing to speak of the injustice that was dared, I am ashamed of the other virtue of those who committed it. For which reason I shall also try to conceal their names. These men, having various pretexts for their enmity, were unwilling to see the man's brilliant virtue, but having found some wretched accusers and seeing the obviousness of the slander, they sat the council far from the city and brought forth their vote. And the emperor, trusting them as priests, ordered him to go far away from the city. But he, having neither heard the accusation nor offered a defense, as though convicted of what he was accused, was forced to leave the city and took possession of Hieron, situated at the mouth of the Pontus; for so they call that port. 335 But when a very great earthquake occurred at night and fear seized the empress, envoys were sent at dawn to the exiled man, begging him to return to the city as quickly as possible and put a stop to the city's danger. And others were sent after them, and still others after these, and the Bosporus became full of those being sent. And when the most faithful people learned of this, they covered the mouth of the Propontis with their ferry-boats; for all went to meet him, lighting wax torches. Then, indeed, the band of his enemies was broken up. But when a few months had passed, they gathered again and demanded punishment, not for those false charges, but for his ministry after the deposition. But he said that he had neither been tried, nor heard the charges, nor made a defense, nor indeed been condemned in his presence, but had been both driven out and then recalled again by the emperor. And when another synod was convened, his enemies did not need a trial, but persuading the emperor that the vote was lawful and just, they not only drove him out of that city, but also sent him away to a certain small and desolate town of Armenia; Cucusus was its name. And bringing him from there, they transferred him to Pityus; this is the end both of the Pontus and of the Roman empire, bordering on the most savage barbarians. But the philanthropic Lord did not allow the glorious athlete to be led away to that 336 islet; for when he had arrived at Comana, He transferred him to the ageless and painless life. And his body, which had contended nobly, was laid beside the coffin of Basiliscus the martyr, the martyr having commanded this through a dream. How many bishops, then, were driven out of their churches on his account and inhabited the very ends of the world, and how many of those who loved the ascetic philosophy fell into similar sufferings, I think it superfluous to narrate and to lengthen the history, especially since I think it necessary to curtail sad events and to cover up the offenses of the perpetrators, who are our fellow believers. However, most of those who did wrong also paid the penalty, and by what they suffered they brought benefit to others. The bishops of Europe especially abhorred this injustice; for they separated themselves from the communion of the perpetrators. And all the Illyrians also became part of that party. But most of the cities towards the rising sun fled from communion with the injustice, but they did not divide the body of the church. And after the great teacher of the world had died, the bishops of the West did not embrace the communion of those in Egypt and the East and in the Bosporus and in Thrace until they had enrolled the name of that 337 divine man with the deceased bishops. And Arsacius, who came after him, they did not deem worthy of mention; but Atticus, the successor of Arsacius, who had often sent embassies and often asked to obtain peace, they received after some time when he had inscribed the name. At this time, Cyril was bishop of Alexandria, nephew of Theophilus, and had obtained his uncle's see. And John, an admirable man, held the see of the church of Jerusalem, Cyril

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τολμηθεῖσαν ἀδικίαν βουλόμενος τὴν ἄλλην ἀρετὴν τῶν ἠδικηκότων αἰσχύνομαι. οὗ δὴ χάριν αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς προσηγορίας κατακρύψαι πειράσομαι. οὗτοι διαφόρους δυσμενείας ἐσχηκότες προφάσεις, τὴν μὲν ἀστράπτουσαν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἰδεῖν οὐκ ἠθέλησαν ἀρετήν, δυστήνους δέ τινας κατηγόρους εὑρόντες καὶ τῆς συκοφαντίας τὸ προφανὲς θεώμενοι, πόρρω τοῦ ἄστεως ἐκάθισαν τὸ συνέδριον καὶ τὴν ψῆφον ἐξήνεγκαν. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ὡς ἱερεῦσι πιστεύσας πόρρω αὐτὸν τοῦ ἄστεως γενέσθαι προσέταξεν. ὁ δὲ μήτε τῆς κατηγορίας ἀκούσας μήτε τὴν ἀπολογίαν προσενεγκών, ὡς ἐληλεγμένος ἐφ' οἷς ᾐτιάθη, τὴν πόλιν καταλιπεῖν ἠναγκάσθη καὶ τὸ ἐν τῷ στόματι τοῦ Πόντου κείμενον κατέλαβεν Ἱερόν· οὕτω γὰρ ἐκεῖνο τὸ ἐπίνειον ὀνομάζουσι. 335 σεισμοῦ δὲ μεγίστου νύκτωρ γεγενημένου καὶ δείματος τὴν βασιλίδα κατεσχηκότος, πρέσβεις ὑπὸ τὴν ἕω πρὸς τὸν ἐληλαμένον ἀπεστάλησαν, ἀντιβολοῦντες ὡς τάχιστα τὸ ἄστυ καταλαβεῖν καὶ στῆσαι τῇ πόλει τὸν κίνδυνον. καὶ ἕτεροι δὲ μετ' ἐκείνους ἐπέμφθησαν καὶ ἄλλοι μετὰ τούτους, καὶ πλήρης ὁ Βόσπορος τῶν πεμπομένων ἐγένετο. ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοῦτο ὁ πιστότατος ἔγνω λεώς, ἐκάλυψεν τοῖς πορθμείοις τῆς Προποντίδος τὸ στόμα· πάντες γὰρ ὑπήντησαν τὰς ἐκ κηροῦ λαμπάδας προσάπτοντες. Τότε μὲν οὖν τὸ τῶν δυσμενῶν διελύθη στῖφος. ὀλίγων δὲ διελθόντων μηνῶν συνηθροίσθησαν αὖθις καὶ δίκας εἰσέπραττον οὐ τῶν ψευδῶν ἐκείνων γραφῶν, ἀλλὰ τῆς μετὰ τὴν καθαίρεσιν λει τουργίας. ὁ δὲ ἔλεγε μήτε δικάσασθαι μήτε τῶν γραφῶν ἐπακοῦσαι μήτε ἀπολογίαν ποιήσασθαι μήτε μὴν κατακριθῆναι παρών, ἀλλ' ὑπὸ βασιλέως ἐξελαθῆναί τε καὶ αὖ πάλιν ἀνακληθῆναι. καὶ συνόδου συγκροτηθείσης ἑτέρας, οὐκ ἐδεήθησαν δίκης οἱ δυσμενεῖς, ἀλλὰ τὸν βασιλέα πείσαντες ἔννομον καὶ δικαίαν εἶναι τὴν ψῆφον οὐ μόνον τῆς πόλεως ἐκείνης ἐξήλασαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἴς τινα πολίχνην σμικράν τε καὶ ἔρημον τῆς Ἀρμενίας ἐξέπεμψαν· Κουκουσὸς δὲ ὄνομα ταύτῃ. κἀκεῖθεν δὲ ἐξαγαγόντες εἰς Πιτυοῦντα μετῴκισαν· τέρμα δὲ τοῦτο καὶ τοῦ Πόντου καὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίας, τοῖς ὠμοτάτοις γειτο νεῦον βαρβάροις. ἀλλ' ὁ φιλάνθρωπος οὐκ εἴασε δεσπότης εἰς ἐκεῖνο 336 τὸ νησύδριον ἀπαχθῆναι τὸν καλλίνικον ἀθλητήν· εἰς γὰρ τὰ Κόμανα παραγενόμενον εἰς τὸν ἀγήρω καὶ ἄλυπον μετέθηκε βίον. τὸ δέ γε καλῶς ἀγωνισάμενον σῶμα παρὰ τὴν θήκην ἀπετέθη Βασιλίσκου τοῦ μάρτυρος, τοῦτο δι' ὀνείρατος προστεταχότος τοῦ μάρτυρος. Ὁπόσοι μὲν οὖν τῶν ἐπισκόπων δι' ἐκεῖνον τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἐξηλάθησαν καὶ αὐτὰς ᾤκησαν τὰς τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐσχατιάς, ὁπόσοι δὲ καὶ τῶν τὴν ἀσκητικὴν φιλοσοφίαν ἠγαπηκότων τοῖς ἴσοις παθή μασι περιέπεσον, περιττὸν οἶμαι διηγεῖσθαι καὶ μηκύνειν τὴν συγ γραφήν, ἄλλως τε καὶ χρῆναι νομίζω συστέλλειν τὰ σκυθρωπὰ καὶ τῶν δεδρακότων ὁμοπίστων ὄντων συγκαλύπτειν τὰ πλημμελήματα. ἔδοσαν μέντοι καὶ δίκας τῶν ἠδικηκότων οἱ πλεῖστοι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις δι' ὧν ἔπαθον τὴν ὠφέλειαν προσήνεγκαν. Ταύτην ἐβδελύξαντο διαφερόντως τὴν ἀδικίαν οἱ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἐπίσκοποι· τῆς γὰρ τῶν δεδρακότων σφὰς αὐτοὺς ἀπέκριναν κοινωνίας. καὶ Ἰλλύριοι δὲ πάντες τῆς μερίδος ἐκείνης ἐγένοντο. τῶν δὲ πρὸς ἥλιον ἀνίσχοντα πόλεων οἱ πλεῖστοι ἔφυγον μὲν τῆς ἀδικίας τὴν κοινωνίαν, τὸ δὲ τῆς ἐκκλησίας οὐκ ἐμέρισαν σῶμα. καὶ τελευτήσαντος δὲ τοῦ μεγάλου διδασκάλου τῆς οἰκουμένης, οὐ πρότερον οἱ τῆς Ἑσπέρας ἐπίσκοποι τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ τῇ Ἑῴᾳ καὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ Βοσπόρῳ καὶ τῇ Θρᾴκῃ τὴν κοινωνίαν ἠσπάσαντο ἕως ἐκείνου τοῦ 337 θεσπεσίου ἀνδρὸς τοὔνομα τοῖς τεθνεῶσιν ἐπισκόποις συνέταξαν. καὶ Ἀρσάκιον μέν, ὃς μετ' ἐκεῖνον ἐγένετο, προσρήσεως οὐκ ἠξίωσαν· Ἀττικὸν δὲ τὸν Ἀρσακίου διάδοχον, πολλάκις μὲν πρεσβευσάμενον, πολλάκις δὲ τῆς εἰρήνης τυχεῖν ἀξιώσαντα, χρόνῳ ὕστερον ἐδέξαντο τὴν προσηγορίαν ἐγγράψαντα. Κατὰ τοῦτον δὲ τὸν χρόνον Ἀλεξανδρείας μὲν Κύριλλος ἐπίσκοπος ἦν, Θεοφίλου μὲν ἀδελφιδοῦς, τοῦ δὲ θείου τὴν προεδρίαν λαχών. τῆς δὲ Ἱεροσολύμων ἐκκλησίας Ἰωάννης εἶχε τὴν προεδρίαν, ἀνὴρ ἀξιάγαστος, Κύριλλον