Note 071 Tillemont, whom I follow and abridge, has extracted (Mem. Eccles. tom. viii. p. 153-167) the most authentic circumstances from the Panegyrics of the two Gregories, the brother and the friend of Basil. The letters of Basil himself (Dupin, Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom. ii. p. 155-180) do not present the image of a very lively persecution.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 25