A ses yeux, l’Orient et l’Occident ne sont ils pas, deux frères, dont les droits sont égaux, sans suprématie, sans aînesse?”  Fialon, Et. Hist. p. 134.  This is exactly what East and West were to most eyes, and what they were asserted to be in the person of the two imperial capitals by the Twenty-Eighth Canon of Chalcedon.  cf. Bright, Canons of the First Four General Councils, pp. 93, 192, and note on Theodoret in this series, p. 293.