[691] Victor Ton., an. 558; Facundus, Ep. Fid. Cath.
[692] Lib. Pontif., Pelagius; Marcel. Com., an. 554. There was a popular rumour that he had murdered Vigilius.
[693] Epist. 6 (Migne, S. L., lxix, 391).
[694] See his Epistles; Hefele, Hist. Councils, iv, 343, etc., for details of the schism. According to Liberatus (24) Theodore Ascidas gave it as his confidential opinion that he and Pelagius ought to have been burnt alive for the trouble they had brought into the Church over Origen and the Three Chapters.
[695] Two lives of him in John Eph., Com., pp. 160, 206. A modern life by Kleyn, Leyd., 1882.
[696] The particulars in John Eph., Hist. (Smith), p. 250 et seq.
[697] John Eph., Com., pp. 162, 206. In the Semitic, Arethas = Harith-ibn-Gabbala. Duchesne has treated of Christian missions to the south of the Empire at some length; Mis. chrét. au sud de l'emp. rom., 1896.
[698] She died of cancer of the breast, according to Vict. Ton. (an. 549), who regarded the disease as a penalty of her heretical impiety.
[699] Cod., I, iii, 42; Nov. vi, pf., etc.
[700] Cod., I, iii, 42; Nov. vi, 1; cxxiii, 1; cxxxvii, 2.