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Τίνες ἄλλοι μονάζοντες κατὰ τοῦτον διέπρεπον τὸν καιρόν

Ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι κατ´ ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν τὰς τῆς μοναχικῆς φιλοσοφίας ἀφιέντες μαρμαρυγάς· ἐν μὲν τῇ Χαλκιδέων ἐρήμῳ Ἄβιτος καὶ Μαρκιανὸς καὶ Ἀβραάμης καὶ ἕτεροι πρὸς τούτοις οὐκ εὐαρίθμητοι, ἐν παθητοῖς σώμασι τὴν ἀπαθῆ βιοτὴν μελετῶντες· ἐν δὲ τῇ Ἀπαμέων χώρᾳ Ἀγαπητὸς καὶ Συμεώνης καὶ Παῦλος· ἐν δὲ τῇ Ζευγματέων, Πούπλιος καὶ Παῦλος καὶ ἄλλοι τὴν ἄκραν φιλοσοφίαν συλλέγοντες. Ἐν δὲ τῇ Κυρεστῶν, ὁ μὲν πανεύφημος Ἀκεψεμᾶς ἐν οἰκίσκῳ καθεῖρκτο, καὶ ἑξηκοντούτην χρόνον τοῦτον ἐβίω τὸν τρόπον, οὔτε ὁρώμενος οὔτε φθεγγόμενος· Ζευγμάτιος δὲ ὁ ἀξιάγαστος, καίτοι τὸ βλέπειν ἀφῃρημένος, περιῄει στηρίζων τὰ πρόβατα καὶ τοῖς λύκοις μαχόμενος, οὗ δὴ χάριν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀσκητικὴν καλύβην ἐνέπρησαν. Ἀλλὰ Τραϊανὸς ὁ πιστότατος στρατηγὸς ἑτέραν ἐδείματο καὶ τῆς ἄλλης θεραπείας μετέδωκεν. Ἐν δὲ τῇ Ἀντιοχέων, Μαριανὸς καὶ Εὐσέβιος καὶ Ἀμμιανός, Παλλάδιός τε καὶ Συμεώνης καὶ Ἀβραάμης καὶ ἄλλοι πρὸς τούτοις τὴν εἰκόνα τὴν θείαν ἀκήρατον διασώσαντες. Καὶ τούτων δὲ κἀκείνων τὸν βίον ἀνάγραπτον πεποιήκαμεν. Καὶ τὸ ὄρος δὲ τὸ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρακείμενον πόλει λειμῶσι παραπλησίοις ὡράϊστο· καὶ γὰρ ἐν τούτῳ Πέτρος ὁ Γαλάτης διέλαμπε, καὶ ὁ τούτου γε ὁμώνυμος ὁ Αἰγύπτιος, καὶ Ῥωμανὸς καὶ Σευῆρος καὶ Ζήνων, Μωϋσῆς τε καὶ Μάλχος καὶ ἄλλοι πλεῖστοι, παρὰ μὲν τῶν πολλῶν ἀγνοούμενοι, παρὰ δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ γινωσκόμενοι.

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The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret (CCEL)

Chapter VII. Of famous leaders of the Arian faction.

The Eastern section of the empire had received the infection from many quarters. Arius, a presbyter of Alexandria in Egypt, there begat the blasphemy. Eusebius, Patrophilus, and Aetius of Palestine, Paulinus and Gregorius of Phœnicia, Theodotus of Laodicea and his successor Georgius, and after him Athanasius and Narcissus of Cilicia, had nurtured the seeds so foully sown. Eusebius and Theognis of Bithynia; Menophantus of Ephesus; Theodorus of Perinthus and Maris of Chalcedon, and some others of Thrace famous only for their vices, had for a long time gone on watering and tending the crop of tares. These bad husbandmen were aided by the indifference of Constantius and the malignity of Valens.

For these reasons only the bishops of his own empire were summoned by the emperor to meet at Constantinople. They arrived, being in all one hundred and fifty in number, and Theodosius forbade any one to tell him which was the great Meletius, for he wished the bishop to be recognized by his dream. The whole company of the bishops entered the imperial palace, and then without any notice of all the rest, Theodosius ran up to the great Meletius, and, like a boy who loves his father, stood for a long space gazing on him with filial joy, then flung his arms around him, and covered eyes and lips and breast and head and the hand that had given him the crown, with kisses. Then he told him of his dream. All the rest of the bishops were then courteously welcomed, and all were bidden to deliberate as became fathers on the subjects laid before them.