Chapter XV
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The
Emperor banishes Evagrius and Eustathius. The Arians persecute the
Orthodox.
When
this had been accomplished
the Arians renewed their persecution of the Homoousians: and the
emperor was very soon informed of what had taken place, and
apprehending the subversion of the city in consequence of some popular
tumult, immediately sent troops from Nicomedia to Constantinople;
ordering that both he who had been ordained, and the one who had
ordained him, should be apprehended and sent into exile in different
regions. Eustathius therefore was banished to Bizya a city of Thrace;
and Evagrius was conveyed to another place. After this the Arians,
becoming bolder, grievously harassed the orthodox party, frequently
beating them, reviling them, causing them to be imprisoned, and fined;
in short they practiced distressing and intolerable annoyances against
them. The sufferers were induced to appeal to the emperor for
protection against their adversaries if haply they might obtain some
relief from this oppression. But whatever hope of redress they might
have cherished from this quarter, was altogether frustrated, inasmuch
as they thus merely spread their grievances before him who was the very
author of them.