70. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 30.
71. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. p. 108, note 1.
72. Compare Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. pp. 134, 137.
73. This Montius was quaestor of the palace: he is mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus, b. xiv. 6.
74. Logisth&n . The exact meaning of this term is explained by Valesius in his Annotations on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius.
75. She is here called Augusta, as being the daughter of Constantine. She had been formerly married to Anniballianus. Her character may be gathered from Ammianus Marcellinus, (b. xiv. ch. 1,) who calls her "Altera Megaera." Lowth.
76. This island is called Flano by Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 34, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. iv. ch. 7. The emperor Julian asserts in his Letter to the Senate and People of Athens, that the eunuch Eusebius was the cause of Gallus being put to death.
77. Compare Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. iv. ch. 15.
78. Compare Theodoret. Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 17.
79. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 25.
80. There is a mistake in the chronology of Philostorgius here ; Eudoxius was translated not after the lapse and restoration of Liberius, but A. D. 367, the year following that event.
81. She was barren all her life, as Ammianus Marcellinns (Hist. b. xvi. ch. 11) asserts. She did not long survive the cure worked on her by Theophilus, as in the year A. D. 360 Constantius married Faustina, having already lost his wife some time, amissa jam pridem Eusebia. Ammianus Marcellinus, b. xxi. ch. 6.
82. Basil of Ancyra was the leader of the middle or Semi-Arian party.
83. The records are not to be taken from the creed which was thirdly composed at the synod of Sirmium, and to which the names of the consuls were prefixed; for the events here described took place the year after that synod was held. They would seem, therefore, rather to be taken from the formula adopted at the synod of Ancyra, to which Liberius of Rome subscribed. See Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. iv. ch. 15. Lowth.
84. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 6.
85. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 26.
86. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 27.
87. Gregory of Nyssa (contr. Eunomium, lib. i.) mentions that this accusation was often brought forward against Basil by the party of Eunomius, and he defends him from it most satisfactorily.
88. Two Basils are mentioned in (his chapter. The one was Basil the Groat, afterwards bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, who was only a deacon at this period ; and the other Basil was bishop of Ancyra. The latter is the one here intended.
89. See note below, p. 473.
90. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 27.
91. This Athanasius, bishop of Ancyra, is, of course, a distinct individual from the great Athanasius. As to the deposal of Basil, see Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 42.
92. Artemidorus, and after him Strabo, say that this place is a town of Pisidia, near the base of Mount. Taurus.
93. It is to be observed, that Socrates (Eccl. Hist. b. iv. ch. 7) and Sozomen (Eccl. Hist. b.vi. ch. 8) make Eunomius to have been bishop of Cyzicus under the emperor Valens. Theodoret is probably more correct in representing him as bishop under Constantius, as Philostorgius does here.
94. Allusion is made to Constantius, Dalmatius, Anniballianus, and Gallus; all of whom had suffered death under Constantius and by his consent.