[447:1] Gibbon's Rome, vol. ii. p. 274.
[447:2] "Theodosius, though a professor of the orthodox Christian faith, was not baptized till 380, and his behavior after that period stamps him as one of the most cruel and vindictive persecutors who ever wore the purple. His arbitrary establishment of the Nicene faith over the whole empire, the deprivation of civil rites of all apostates from Christianity and of the Eunomians, the sentence of death on the Manicheans, and Quarto-decimans all prove this." (Chambers's Encyclo., art. Theodosius.)
[447:3] Quoted in Taylor's Syntagma, p. 54.
[447:4] Gibbon's Rome, vol. iii. p. 81.
[448:1] Gibbon's Rome, vol. iii. pp. 91, 92.
[448:2] All their writings were ordered to be destroyed.
[448:3] Gibbon's Rome, vol. ii. p. 359.
[448:4] Ibid. note 154.
[449:1] Julian: Epistol. lii. p. 436. Quoted in Gibbon's Rome, vol. ii. p. 360.
[449:2] "Thing"—a general assembly of the freemen, who gave their assent to a measure by striking their shields with their drawn swords.