It has been debated whether the odium theologicum was here mixed up with the odium ecclesiasticum.  Gregory (Orat. xliii. 58) represents Anthimus as defending his seizure of the metropolitan revenues on the ground that it was wrong δασμοφορειν κακοδόξοις, to pay tribute to men of evil opinions, and LeClerc (Bibl. Univer. xviii. p. 60) has condemned Anthimus as an Arian.  He was undoubtedly Αρή& 187·ος (Greg. Naz., Ep. xlviii.), a devotee of Ares, as he shewed in the skirmish by Sasima; but there is no reason to suppose him to have been Αρειανός, or Arian.  He probably looked askance at the orthodoxy of Basil.  Basil would never have called him ὁμόψυχος (Ep. ccx. 5) if he had been unsound on the incarnation.  cf. Baronius, Act. Sanc. Maj. ii. p. 394.