2. Their presenting you with their own
signatures for an accusation against me is not the only contradiction
into which they have fallen. They were unanimously deposed by the
bishops assembled at Constantinople. i.e. in
January 360. Soc. ii. 41–43; Soz. iv. 24. They
refused to accept this deposition and appealed to a synod of impious
men, The Synod of
Lampsacus in 365 is probably referred to, but Socrates (v. 14)
mentions several synods of the Homoiousians. refusing to
admit the episcopacy of their judges, in order not to accept the
sentence passed upon them.