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Chapter
XLVIII.—Thalassius is ordained Bishop of Cæsarea
in Cappadocia.
About this same time, under the
seventeenth consulate of Theodosius,1040
Proclus the bishop undertook the performance of an act, such as no one
among the ancients had done. Firmus bishop of Cæsarea in
Cappadocia being dead, the inhabitants of that place came to
Constantinople to consult Proclus about the appointment of a bishop.
While Proclus was considering whom he should prefer to that see, it so
happened that all the senators came to the church to visit him on the
sabbath day; among whom was Thalassius also, a man who had administered
the government of the nations and cities of Illyricum. And as it was
reported that the emperor was about to entrust the government of the
Eastern parts to him, Proclus laid his hands on him, and ordained him
bishop of Cæsarea, instead of Prætorian Prefect.
In such a flourishing condition were the affairs of the
Church at this time. But we shall here close our history, praying that
the churches everywhere, with the cities and nations, may live in
peace; for as long as peace continues, those who desire to write
histories will find no materials for their purpose. And we ourselves, O
holy man of God, Theodore, should have been unable to accomplish in
seven books the task we undertook at your request, had the lovers of
seditions chosen to be quiet.
This last book contains an account of the transactions
of thirty-two years: and the whole history which is comprised in seven
books, comprehends a period of 140 years.1041
| 1041Evidently a round number, as he begun with the year
305 (cf. I. 1), and the exact number of years included in the history
cannot be more than 135.
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It commences from the first year of the 271st Olympiad, in which
Constantine was proclaimed emperor; and ends at the second year of the
305th Olympiad, in which the Emperor Theodosius bore his seventeenth
consulate.1042
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