Chapter
XXXV
.—
Abatement of Persecution against the Christians
because of the War with the Goths.
The
barbarians having been put
into possession of Thrace, and securely enjoying that Roman province,
were unable to bear their good fortune with moderation; but committing
hostile aggressions upon their benefactors, devastated all Thrace and
the adjacent countries. When these proceedings came to the knowledge of
Valens, he desisted from sending the adherents of the
homoousion
into banishment; and in great alarm left Antioch, and came to
Constantinople, where also the persecution of the orthodox Christians
was for the same reason come to an end. At the same time Euzoïus,
bishop of the Arians at Antioch, departed this life, in the fifth
consulate
673
of Valens, and the first of Valentinian the younger; and Dorotheus was
appointed in his place.
673
376
a.d.