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| Of the Heresiarch Photinus.
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Chapter XXIX.—Of the
Heresiarch Photinus.
During this time Photinus,354
| 354A disciple of Marcellus (see ch. 18). See Hilar.
de Synod. 61, Cave on Photinus.
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who then presided over the church in that city more openly avowed the
creed he had devised; wherefore a tumult being made in consequence, the
emperor ordered a Synod of bishops to be held at Sirmium. There were
accordingly convened there of the Oriental bishops,355
| 355The bishops here mentioned, according to Valesius,
took part not in this council, but in another held at the same place
nine years later, under the consuls Eusebius and Hypatius.
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Mark of Arethusa, George of Alexandria, whom the Arians sent, as I have
before said, having placed him over that see on the removal of Gregory,
Basil who presided over the church at Ancyra after Marcellus was
ejected, Pancratius of Pelusium, and Hypatian of Heraclea. Of the
Western bishops there were present Valens of Mursa, and the then
celebrated Hosius of Cordova in Spain, who attended much against his
will. These met at Sirmium, after the consulate of Sergius and
Nigrinian,356
| 356351 a.d. So also Sozomen,
IV. 6.
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in which year no consul celebrated the customary inaugural357
| 357The Ludi circenses, consisting of five games,
leaping, wrestling, boxing, racing, and hurling,—called in Greek
πένταθλον
,—with scenic representations and spectacles of wild beasts at
the amphitheatre; with these the consuls entertained the people at
their entrance on the consulate. Alluded to by Tacitus (Ann. I.
2) and Juvenal (Sat. X. 1). Cf. Smith, Dict. of Greek and
Rom. Antiq.
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solemnities, in consequence of the tumults of war; and having met and
found that Photinus held the heresy of Sabellius the Libyan, and Paul
of Samosata, they immediately deposed him. This decision was both at
that time and afterwards universally commended as honorable and just;
but those who continued there, subsequently acted in a way which was by
no means so generally approved.
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