4.
Proceedings after the Council of
Milan.
Are they then satisfied with all this, and
content to be quiet for the future? By no means; they have not given
over yet, but like the horseleach
1403
in the
Proverbs, they revel more and more in their wickedness, and fix
themselves upon the larger dioceses. Who can adequately describe the
enormities they have already perpetrated? who is able to recount all
the deeds that they have done? Even very lately, while the Churches
were at peace, and the people worshipping in their congregations,
Liberius, Bishop of Rome, Paulinus
1404
, Metropolitan
of Gaul, Dionysius
1405
, Metropolitan of
Italy, Lucifer
1406
, Metropolitan of
the Sardinian islands, and Eusebius
1407
of Italy, all
of them good Bishops and preachers of the truth, were seized and
banished
1408
, on no pretence whatever, except that
they would not unite themselves to the Arian heresy, nor subscribe to
the false accusations and calumnies which they had invented against
me.
1403
Hist. Arian.
§65;
Prov. xxx. 15
.
1404
Of
Treveri.
1405
Of
Milan.
1406
Of
Cagliari.
1407
Of
Vercellæ.
1408
[Council of Milan, 355.]