[495] Sozom. viii. 4. Socr. vi. 6. Theod. v. 32.
[496] Sozom. viii. 4. Socr. vi. 6. Zosim. v. 19.
[497] Eunap. Sard. Fragm. 60. Sozom. viii. 4.
[498] Vide c. 21.
[499] Sozom. viii. 4. Socr. vi. 6.
[500] The Alexandrian Chronicle is precise in fixing Dec. 23, A.D. 400, as the date of his defeat on the Hellespont, and Jan. 3, A.D. 401, as the day on which his head was brought into Constantinople. This certainly leaves a very insufficient interval for the events recorded in Zosimus.
[501] Vide c. 33.
[502] Palladius, author of the Dialogue prefixed to Migne’s edition of Chrysostom’s works. On the debated question whether this Palladius was the same Bishop of Hellenopolis who wrote the Lausiaca, vide Tillemont, xi. “Vie de Pallade.”
[503] There was in fact what might be called a floating synod of this kind always in existence in Constantinople; the Patriarch being ex officio President.—Tillemont, xv. 703, 704.
[504] We are in the summer of A.D. 400, and the capture and death of Gaïnas occurred in Jan. A.D. 401.