[573] Pallad. Dial. 8. Socr. vi. 15. Soz. viii. 17.
[574] Tillemont, vol. xi.
[575] It contains the celebrated passage: “Herodias again dances and demands the head of John;” which recurs as the exordium of another and spurious homily (vol. viii. p. 485), and also an indignant repudiation of the offence of administering baptism after eating.—vol. iii. 427. Socrates, vi. 16. Sozom. viii. 17, 18.
[576] The authenticity of which has been questioned. The style is perhaps not quite worthy of Chrysostom; but in one of his sermons after his return from exile he apparently alludes to some quotations from Job made in this discourse.
[577] More strictly speaking, “the Hieron,” “the sacred spot” where the Argonauts were supposed to have offered sacrifice to Zeus on their return from Colchis.
[578] Sozom. viii. 18, 19. Socrat. vi. 16, 17. Zosim. v. 23.
[579] Theod. v. 34. Chrys. vol. iii. p. 446.
[580] Socr. vi. 16. Soz. viii. 18. Chrys. Ep. ad Innoc. in Dial. Pall. p. 10.
[581] It appears from subsequent events that Theophilus had not yet actually quitted Constantinople, but he and his partisans had retired for the time discomfited from the field of active opposition; and this would justify the language of Chrysostom, who is speaking under excitement.
[582] Sermones 1 and 2, post red. ab exsil. vol. iii.