[523] Theophilus is said to have fallen down before her and kissed her knees, an obeisance prompted by avaricious hopes on his part, and repelled by genuine humility on hers.
[524] Pallad. Dial. c. 16, 17. Sozom. viii. 9.
[525] Pallad. Dial. c. 6. Tillemont xiv. p. 219 seq.: ἐγὼ αὐτῷ ἀρτύω χύτραν.
[526] Pallad. Dial. c. 5, 6, 18, 19.
[527] Jerome in Ruf. lib. ii. c. 5. Ep. xxxi. p. 203.
[528] Tillemont, xi.: Vie de Theophile.
[529] Euseb. Hist. vi. 3, 19.
[530] Jerome declared that Origen had composed more books than most men would find time to copy.—Epist. xxix.
[531] The Paschal Letter was a circular addressed to clergy and monks throughout the diocese soon after the Epiphany; the primary object was to announce the date of the first day of Lent and of Easter Day, whence the name; but other matters were, as in the present instance, frequently introduced. See Tillemont, xi. 462.
[532] Socrat. vi. 7. Sozom. viii. 11, 12.