The Lantern

Against the Donatists · Appendix 2. The trial before Zenophilus18

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Zenophilus said to Crescentianus:

'Did the people get any of the four hundred pieces of money, the gift of Lucilla?'

Crescentianus said:

'No one to my knowledge had any of it, nor do I know who spent the money.' |380

Nundinarius said:

'Did no old women ever get any of it?'

Crescentianus said:

'No.'

Zenophilus said:

'It is certain that whenever any gift of this kind is made, all the populace receive their part of it in public'

Crescentianus said:

'I neither heard nor saw that he gave any.'

Zenophilus said to Crescentianus:

'None then of the four hundred pieces of money were given to the people?'

Crescentianus said:

'None----otherwise surely some small trifle would have come to us.'

Zenophilus said:

'Where then was the money taken?'

Crescentianus said:

'I do not know. No one got anything.'

Nundinarius said:

'How much money did Victor give to be made priest?'

Crescentianus said:

'I saw that he brought baskets with money in them.'

Zenophilus said to Crescentianus: