Zenophilus said to Crescentianus:
'Did they say that he was a Betrayer? And,' he added, 'Who said it?'
Crescentianus said:
'Those who lived with him among the people said that he had once betrayed.'
Zenophilus said:
'Did they say this of Silvanus?'
Crescentianus said:
'Yes.'
Zenophilus said to Crescentianus:
'Were you there when he was made Bishop?'
Crescentianus said:
'I was present with the people, but shut up in the big shed.'
Nundinarius the deacon said:
'The country people and quarry-men made him Bishop.' |379
Zenophilus said to Crescentianus:
'Is there no doubt that it was Mutus the quarry-man who carried him?'
He said:
'There is no doubt about it.'
Zenophilus said to Crescentianus:
'Is it within your knowledge that casks were taken away from the temple of Serapis?'
Crescentianus said:
'Several persons used to say that Bishop Purpurius himself took the casks and the vinegar, which came to our senior Bishop Silvanus, and the sons of Aelion said so.'
Zenophilus said to Crescentianus:
'What did you hear?'
Crescentianus said that the vinegar had been taken away by the senior Bishop Silvanus, and by Dontius and Superius the priests and Lucian the deacon.