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unwilling that anything new should happen concerning the ancestral faith and the ecclesiastical order, but in truth clearing himself of the reputation of a tyrant, and looking toward and contriving for the empire, if he might somehow 7.13.11 be able to seem to be acquiring for himself the rule of the Romans by law, not by force. But Valentinian, being compelled by the circumstance, accepted the symbols of his own reign. And fearing lest he suffer something, he fled from Italy and came to Thessalonica, and with him his mother and Probus the prefect. 7.14.1 And at this time, while Theodosius was preparing for the war against Maximus, a son, Honorius, was born. And when the matters concerning the army were prepared for him, leaving his son Arcadius ruling in Constantinople, he met Valentinian in Thessalonica. And he neither openly sent away nor received the envoys sent from Maximus, but taking 7.14.2 up the soldiers he proceeded to Italy. And about this time, Agelius, the bishop of the Novatians in Constantinople, being about to die, chose Sisinnius, a presbyter under him, in his own place. But when the multitude complained that it was not Marcian, a man notable for piety, thinking it easier he ordained Marcian, and addressed the people in the church: "After me," he says, "you have Marcian, and after him 7.14.3 Sisinnius." And having said these things, he died not long after, having presided with distinction over his own sect for forty years; and there are some who also claim that this man had been a confessor in the times of the Hellenes. 7.14.4 Not long after, when Timothy and Cyril departed this life, Theophilus succeeded to the throne of Alexandria, and John to that of Jerusalem. And in Constantinople, Demophilus, the leader of the Arian heresy, also died, and a certain Marinus was summoned from Thrace and entrusted with his succession; but as being more suitable, Dorotheus, coming from Antioch in Syria, presided over the heresy. 7.14.5 Meanwhile, when Theodosius arrived in Italy, rumors about the war prevailed according to what each person thought, and among the Arians, that with many falling in battle the emperor had come under the power of the tyrant. And as if what they had rumored had already happened, they took courage, and running to the house of Nectarius the bishop they set it on fire, being angry because he was in control of the churches. 7.14.6 But for the emperor, the matters concerning the war turned out according to his wishes. For the soldiers under Maximus, either from fear of the preparation against them or through treachery, seizing the tyrant, brought him to him as a prisoner. And Andragathius, the one who had killed Gratian, when he learned these things, with his very weapons leaped into a river flowing 7.14.7 nearby and perished. And when the war had been ended in this manner, since he had exacted fitting vengeance for Gratian he came to Rome, and celebrated a triumphal procession together with Valentinian and settled well the affairs concerning the church in Italy. For it also happened that Justina died. 7.15.1 And at that time, when Paulinus died in Antioch, those who held assembly under him continued to shun Flavian as one who had transgressed the oaths given in the time of Meletius, although differing in nothing concerning doctrine; and Evagrius was appointed their bishop. But when he survived for only a short time, another no longer filled this succession, as Flavian worked against it; and as many as refused communion with him held assembly privately. 7.15.2 And about this time the bishop of Alexandria was converting the temple of Dionysus among them into a church; for he had received this as a gift from the emperor upon asking. And when the wooden images there were being demolished and the inner shrines were being uncovered, eager to deliberately insult the Hellenic mys7.15.3 teries, he both paraded these things, and phalli and whatever else hidden in the inner shrines was or seemed ridiculous, he brought into public for display. But astonished at the strangeness and the unexpectedness of what had happened, the Hellenes could not remain quiet

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