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THUS Athanasius departed, hastening to the emperor, and the
Synod in the first place condemned him in his absence; and when the
re-suit of the enquiry which had been instituted at Mareotis was
presented, they voted to depose him; loading him with opprobrious
epithets in their sentence of deposition, but being wholly silent
respecting the disgraceful defeat of the charge of murder brought by his
calumniators. They moreover received into communion Arsenius, who
was reported to have been murdered; and he who had formerly been a
bishop of the Melitian heresy subscribed to the deposition of
Athanasius as bishop of the city of Hypselopolis. Thus by an
extraordinary course of circumstances, the alleged victim of
assassination by Athanasius, was found alive to assist in deposing
him.
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