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WHEN this had been accomplished the Arians renewed their
persecution of the Homoousians: and the emperor was very soon informed
of what had taken place, and apprehending the subversion of the city in
consequence of some popular tumult, immediately sent troops from
Nicomedia to Constantinople; ordering that both he who had been
ordained, and the one who had ordained him, should be apprehended and
sent into exile in different regions. Eustathius therefore was
banished to Bizya a city of Thrace; and Evagrius was conveyed to
another place. After this the Arians, becoming bolder, grievously
harassed the orthodox party, frequently beating them, reviling them,
causing them to be imprisoned, and fined; in short they practiced
distressing and intolerable annoyances against them. The sufferers
were induced to appeal to the emperor for protection against their
adversaries if haply they might obtain some relief from this
oppression. But whatever hope of redress they might have cherished
from this quarter, was altogether frustrated, inasmuch as they thus
merely spread their grievances before him who was the very author of
them.
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