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| The first charge, of setting Constans against Constantius.
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2. The first charge,
of setting Constans against Constantius.
But as to the slanderous charge which has been
preferred against me before your Grace, respecting correspondence with
the most pious Augustus, your brother Constans1287
| 1287 Prolegg. ch. ii. §6 (3); cf. Lucifer. Op. p. 91. (ed.
Ven. 1778.) Theod. H. E. ii. 13; infr. Hist. Arian.
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of blessed and everlasting memory (for my enemies report this of me,
and have ventured to assert it in writing), the former events1288
| 1288 Vid.
Apol. contr. Arian. passim. | are sufficient to prove this also to be
untrue. Had it been alleged by another set of persons, the matter would
indeed have been a fit subject of enquiry, but it would have required
strong evidence, and open proof in presence of both parties: but when
the same persons who invented the former charge, are the authors also
of this, is it not reasonable to conclude from the issue of the one,
the falsehood of the other? For this cause they again conferred
together in private, thinking to be able to deceive your Piety before I
was aware. But in this they failed: you would not listen to them as
they desired, but patiently gave me an opportunity to make my defence.
And, in that you were not immediately moved to demand vengeance, you
acted only as was righteous in a Prince, whose duty it is to wait for
the defence of the injured party. Which if you will vouchsafe to hear,
I am confident that in this matter also you will condemn those reckless
men, who have no fear of that God, who has commanded us not to speak
falsely before the king1289
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