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and the things at the synod of Ariminum, whatever was done contrary to this aforementioned faith of the holy synod of the Nicaeans, to which, having been persuaded by deceit and perjury in Constantinople, brought from Nice in Thrace, we subscribed.” 6.11.4 Having confessed these things, they also annexed the faith set forth at Nicaea in the very same words to their own confession; and having received letters from Liberius concerning what had been done, they sailed to Sicily. 6.12.1 A synod having been held there also and the bishops there having decreed the same things, 6.12.2 when they had done these things, they returned. And at that time, while a synod was being held at Tyana by Eusebius the bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, and Athanasius of Ancyra, and Pelagius of Laodicea, and Zeno of Tyre, and Paul of Emesa, and Otreius of Melitene, and Gregory of Nazianzus, and many others, who had voted in Antioch during the reign of Jovian to uphold the homoousion, the letters of Liberius and of those throughout the West were read. 6.12.3 And becoming overjoyed at these things, they wrote to all the churches to study the decrees of the bishops throughout Asia and the letters of Liberius and of the Italians and Africans and Gauls of the West and Sicilians (for the envoys from Lampsacus brought their letters too), and to consider the number of them all; for by their great multitude they surpassed the synod at Ariminum; and to become of one mind and fellows with them, and to declare by their own writing that they are of this opinion, and to assemble at Tarsus in Cilicia while it was still spring, on a specified day which they appointed. 6.12.4 And thus they exhorted one another to assemble. But when the synod at Tarsus was about to convene, about thirty-four of the Asian bishops, having met at Antioch in Caria, praised the zeal for the concord of the churches, but they rejected the name homoousion, and insisted that the creed set forth at Antioch and Seleucia ought to hold, as being that of Lucian the martyr and having been tested by those before them with dangers and many toils. 6.12.5 But the emperor, at the instigation of Eudoxius, dissolved the anticipated synod in Cilicia, writing about this and adding a threat. In turn, he ordered the governors of the provinces to drive out from the churches the bishops who had been deposed under Constantius, and who had again taken up the priesthood during the reign of Julian. 6.12.6 From this command, zeal also arose among the authorities throughout Egypt to remove Athanasius from the churches there and to drive him out of the city. For no ordinary penalty was laid down in the emperor's letter, if these things were not done, condemning all alike, both governors and the soldiers under them and the senates, to the payment of much money and threatening bodily tortures. 6.12.7 But the multitude of Christians assembled and begged the prefect not to drive out the bishop recklessly, but to consider more carefully the terms of the emperor's letters, as applying only to those who returned under Julian after their exile under Constantius. 6.12.8 But Athanasius, they said, had fled under Constantius, but had been recalled by him and had received back his episcopate; and Julian, having brought back all, had persecuted him alone; and then again Jovian had recalled him. 6.12. Saying these things, they did not persuade him. Nevertheless they held out and did not permit him to be forced. But as the people were flocking together from all sides, and there was much noise and tumult throughout the city, and sedition was expected, the prefect informed 6.12.10 the emperor of what had happened, allowing him to remain in the city. And when many days had passed and the sedition that had been stirred up seemed to have ceased, in the evening Athanasius secretly went out of the city and hid himself in a certain country-place. 6.12.11 But late that same night the prefect of Egypt and the commander of the troops there seized the church, in which the

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καὶ τὰ ἐν τῇ ᾿Αριμήνῳ συνόδῳ, ὅσα ὑπεναντίως ταύτης τῆς προ"7ειρημένης πίστεως τῆς ἁγίας συνόδου Νικαέων ἐπράχθη, οἷς δόλῳ καὶ "7ἐπιορκίᾳ ὑποπεισθέντες ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει κομισθεῖσιν ἀπὸ Νίκης τῆς "7Θρᾴκης ὑπεγράψαμεν.» 6.11.4 Ταῦτα ὁμολογήσαντες καὶ τὴν ἐκτεθεῖσαν ἐν Νικαίᾳ πίστιν αὐτοῖς ῥητοῖς τῇ οἰκείᾳ ὁμολογίᾳ συνῆψαν· καὶ περὶ τῶν πραχθέντων γράμματα Λιβερίου λαβόντες ἔπλευσαν εἰς Σικελίαν. 6.12.1 Γενομένης δὲ κἀκεῖσε συνόδου καὶ τὰ αὐτὰ ψηφισαμένων τῶν τῇδε 6.12.2 ἐπισκόπων, ἐπεὶ τάδε ἔπραξαν, ἐπανῆλθον. κατ' ἐκεῖνο δὲ καιροῦ σύνοδον ἀγόντων ἐν Τυάνοις Εὐσεβίου τοῦ ἐπισκόπου τῆς Καππαδοκῶν Καισαρείας, ᾿Αθανασίου τε τοῦ ᾿Αγκύρας καὶ Πελαγίου τοῦ Λαοδικείας, Ζήνωνός τε τοῦ Τυρίου καὶ Παύλου τοῦ ᾿Εμέσης, ᾿Οτρέως τε τοῦ Μελιτινῆς καὶ Γρηγορίουτοῦ Ναζιανζοῦ καὶ πολλῶν ἄλλων, οἳ τὸ ὁμοούσιον πρεσβεύειν ἐψηφίσαντο ἐν ᾿Αντιοχείᾳ ἐπὶ τῆς ᾿Ιοβιανοῦ βασιλείας, ἀναγινώσκεται τὰ Λιβερίου καὶ 6.12.3 τῶν ἀνὰ τὴν δύσιν γράμματα. περιχαρεῖς τε ἐπὶ τούτοις γενόμενοι ἔγραψαν πάσαις ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις ἐντυχεῖν τοῖς ψηφίσμασι τῶν ἀνὰ τὴν ᾿Ασίαν ἐπισκόπων καὶ τοῖς Λιβερίου γράμμασι καὶ ᾿Ιταλῶν καὶ ῎Αφρων καὶ Γαλα-τῶν τῶν πρὸς δύσιν καὶ Σικελῶν (ἐκόμισαν γὰρ καὶ τούτων τὰ γράμματα οἱ ἐκ Λαμψάκου πρέσβεις), καὶ ἀναλογίσασθαι τὸν πάντων ἀριθμόν· πολλῷ γὰρ τῷ πλήθει τὴν ἐν ᾿Αριμήνῳ σύνοδον ἐνίκων· καὶ ὁμόφρονας αὐτοῖς γενέσθαι καὶ κοινωνούς, καὶ ὅτι ταύτης εἰσὶ τῆς γνώμης, διὰ γραφῆς οἰκείας δηλῶσαι, συνελθεῖν δὲ εἰς Ταρσὸν τῆς Κιλικίας ἔτι ἦρος ὄντος εἰς ῥητὴν ἡμέραν ἣν ὥρισαν. 6.12.4 Καὶ οἱ μὲν ὧδε ἀλλήλοις συνιέναι προετρέποντο. ἤδη δὲ συνίστασθαι μελλούσης τῆς ἐν Ταρσῷ συνόδου συνελθόντες ἐν ᾿Αντιοχείᾳ τῆς Καρίας ἀμφὶ τριάκοντα καὶ τέσσαρες τῶν ᾿Ασιανῶν ἐπισκόπων τὴν μὲν ἐπὶ τῇ ὁμονοίᾳ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν σπουδὴν ἐπῄνουν, παρῃτοῦντο δὲ τὸ τοῦ ὁμοουσίου ὄνομα, καὶ τὴν ἐν ᾿Αντιοχείᾳ καὶ Σελευκείᾳ ἐκτεθεῖσαν πίστιν χρῆναι κρατεῖν ἰσχυρίζοντο, ὡς καὶ Λουκιανοῦ τοῦ μάρτυρος οὖσαν καὶ μετὰ κινδύνων καὶ πολλῶν ἱδρώ6.12.5 των παρὰ τῶν πρὸ αὐτῶν δοκιμασθεῖσαν. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Εὐδοξίου σπουδῇ τὴν ἐν Κιλικίᾳ προσδοκωμένην διέλυσε σύνοδον, γράψας περὶ τούτου καὶ ἀπειλὴν ἐπιθείς. ἐν μέρει δὲ τοῖς ἄρχουσι τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀπελαύνειν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προσέταξε τοὺς ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίου καθαιρεθέντας ἐπισκόπους, αὖθις 6.12.6 δὲ τὴν ἱερωσύνην ἀναλαβόντας ἐπὶ τῆς ᾿Ιουλιανοῦ βασιλείας. ἐκ ταύτης δὲ τῆς προστάξεως καὶ ταῖς ἀνὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἀρχαῖς σπουδὴ γέγονεν ἀφελέσθαι τῶν αὐτόθι ἐκκλησιῶν ᾿Αθανάσιον καὶ τῆς πόλεως ἀπελάσαι. οὐ τὸ τυχὸν γὰρ ἐπιτίμιον ἐνέκειτο τῷ βασιλέως γράμματι, εἰ μὴ ταῦτα γένηται, πάντων ἐπίσης ἀρχόντων τε καὶ τῶν ὑπ' αὐτοὺς στρατιωτῶν καὶ βουλευτηρίων ἔκτισιν πολλῶν χρημάτων καταδικάζον καὶ σώματος αἰκισμοὺς 6.12.7 ἀπειλούμενον. συνελθὸν δὲ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἐξῄτουν τὸν ἔπαρχον ἀπερισκέπτως μὴ ἀπελαύνειν τὸν ἐπίσκοπον, ἀκριβέστερον δὲ σκοπεῖν τὸν ὅρον τῶν βασιλέως γραμμάτων, ὡς κατ' ἐκείνων μόνον κρατοῦντα 6.12.8 τῶν ἐπὶ ᾿Ιουλιανοῦ κατελθόντων μετὰ τὴν ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίου φυγήν. τὸν δὲ ᾿Αθανάσιον ἔλεγον φυγεῖν μὲν ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίου, μετακληθῆναι δὲ παρ' αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν ἀπολαβεῖν· ᾿Ιουλιανὸν δὲ πάντας καταγαγόντα μόνον αὐτὸν διῶξαι· πάλιν δ' αὖ ᾿Ιοβιανὸν αὐτὸν μετακαλέσασθαι. 6.12. Ταῦτα λέγοντες οὐκ ἔπειθον. ἀντεῖχον δὲ ὅμως καὶ βιάζεσθαι οὐ συνεχώρουν. πανταχόθεν δὲ τοῦ δήμου συρρέοντος καὶ πολλοῦ θορύβου καὶ ταράχου ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν ὄντος καὶ στάσεως προσδοκωμένης ἐμήνυσεν ὁ ὕπαρ6.12.10 χος βασιλεῖ τὰ γενόμενα, συγχωρήσας αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ πόλει διάγειν. ἤδη δὲ πολλῶν διαγενομένων ἡμερῶν καὶ τῆς κινηθείσης στάσεως πεπαῦσθαι δοκούσης, ἑσπέρας λαθὼν ᾿Αθανάσιος ἐξῆλθε τῆς πόλεως καὶ εἴς τι χωρίον 6.12.11 ἐκρύπτετο. ἀωρὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτῆς νυκτὸς ὁ ὕπαρχος Αἰγύπτου καὶ ὁ τῶν τῇδε στρατευμάτων ἡγεμὼν κατέλαβον τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ἐν ᾗ τὸ