e Honoratus, from being Pretorian Prefect of the Gallic provinces, made the first Prefect of the city of Constantinople.
d The relics of the apostle Timothy brought to Constantinople.
f Gratian, who is now emperor, is born.
e Sarmata, Amatas and Macarius, disciples of Anthony, are considered notable. g Hilarius, when he had offered a book in his own defence to Constantius at Constantinople, returns to the Gallic provinces.
f Liberius, the Roman bishop, is sent into exile. 1
g Large numbers of the forces of the Alamanni crushed by Julian Caesar at Argentoratum, a city of the Gallic provinces. h Macedonius is banished from Constantinople.
i Almost every church in the whole world is polluted in the name of 'peace' and by the connivance of the ruler of the Arians.
284th Olympiad 23 k The greatest of churches is dedicated in Constantinople.
20 h Saracens, rushing into the monastery of Blessed Anthony, kill Sarmata. 357 l Meletius of Sebastia, bishop of the Armenians, is transferred to Antioch by Acacius and George the Arian bishops, and after no
i After Constantius had entered Rome, the bones of the
(1) Cf. Ammianus Marcellinus 15.7.6-10.
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great interval of time, when he received the presbyters which had been unfrocked by his predecessor Eudoxius, a most just cause of exile having been endured, he played false by changing faith. conceded that he might teach despite being a Christian.
a Aemilianus is burned by the vicarius because he had overturned the altars at Dorostorum.
b The church of Antioch was shut and a most serious storm of imminent persecution was quieted by the will of God. For Julian had proceeded into Persia and vowed our blood after a victory to the gods. There he was led into the desert by a certain pretended deserter, when he had lost his apostate army by hunger and thirst and had unadvisedly strayed from the ranks of his own men, he was by chance stabbed in the groin with a lance by a hostile horseman of the enemy and perished in the 32nd year of his life. After which, the following day, Jovian the primicerius of the household troops was made emperor.
a Because of Hilary, Gaul condemns the treacherous trickeries of Ariminum.
285th Olympiad
23 b Constantius II dies at Mopsocrene, between Cilicia and Cappadocia, in the forty-fifth year of his life. 361
36th of the Romans, Julian reigned for 1 year and 8 months
1 c As Julian had been converted to the worship of idols, there was a mild persecution, more swaying than compelling people to have to sacrifice, in which many of our people fell by their own will. 362
d After George, who had been ordained bishop in place of Athanasius by the Arians, had been burned to death because of a revolt of the people, Athanasius is returned to Alexandria. 37th of the Romans, Jovian reigned for 8 months
2380 1 c Jovian, compelled by necessity, handed over Nisibis and a great part of Mesopotamia to Sapor, king of the Persians. 364
e Eusebius and Lucifer are returned from exile, from where Lucifer, having adopted two other confessors, makes Paulinus, the presbyter of bishop Eustathius and who had never polluted himself in the communion of the heretics, bishop in the Catholic part of Antioch.
d The synod of Antioch convened by Melitius and his group, at which, after the homoousian and anomoian theories were rejected, they proclaimed the Macedonian dogma of the homoiousion, midway between them.