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| Arrivals of Diogenes and of Syrianus.
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22. Arrivals of Diogenes and of
Syrianus.
After a period of six and twenty months, when
Montanus had gone away, there came Diogenes the Notary1351
| 1351 [August, 355 a.d. See Hist. Aceph.
iii. Fest. Ind. xxv., xxvii.] Notaries were the immediate
attendants on magistrates, whose judgments, &c., they recorded and
promulgated. Their office was analogous in the Imperial Court. vid.
Gothofred in Cod. Theod. VI. x. Ammian. Marcell. tom. 3. P. 464.
ed. Erfurt, 1808. Pancirol. Notit. p. 143. Hofman in voc.
Schari enumerates with references the civil officers, &c., to whom
they were attached in Dissert. 1, de Notariis Ecclesiæ, p.
49. | ; but he brought me no letter, nor did we see
each other, nor did he charge me with any commands as from you.
Moreover when the General Syrianus entered Alexandria1352
, seeing that certain reports were spread
abroad by the Arians, who declared that matters would now be as they
wished, I enquired whether he had brought any letters on the subject of
these statements of theirs. I confess that I asked for letters
containing your commands. And when he said that he had brought none, I
requested that Syrianus himself, or Maximus the Prefect of Egypt, would
write to me concerning this matter. Which request I made, because your
Grace has written to me, desiring
that I would not suffer myself to be alarmed by any one, nor attend to
those who wished to frighten me, but that I would continue to reside in
the Churches without fear. It was Palladius, the Master of the Palace,
and Asterius, formerly Duke of Armenia, who brought me this letter.
Permit me to read a copy of it. It is as follows:E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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