Note 047
Eunapius, in the Lives of Antoninus and Aedesius,
execrates the sacrilegious rapine of Theophilus. Tillemont
(Mem. Eccles. tom. xiii. p. 453) quotes an epistle of
Isidore of Pelusium, which reproaches the primate with the
idolatrous worship of gold, the auri sacra fames.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
Chapter 28