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But the tyrant who, as we have said, ruled over the districts of the
Orient, a thorough hater of the good and an enemy of every virtuous
person, as he was, could no longer bear this; and indeed he did not
permit matters to go on in this way quite six months. Devising all
possible means of destroying the peace, he first attempted to restrain
us, under a pretext, from meeting in the cemeteries.
Then through the agency of some wicked men he sent an embassy to
himself against us, inciting tim citizens of Antioch to ask from him
as a very great favor that he would by no means permit any of the
Christians to dwell in their country; and others were secretly induced
to do the same thing. The author of all this in Antioch was
Theotecnus, a violent and wicked man, who was an impostor, and whose
character was foreign to his name. He appears to have been the curator
of the city.
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