4. Proceedings after the Council of Milan.
Are they then satisfied with all this, and
content to be quiet for the future? By no means; they have not given
over yet, but like the horseleach in the
Proverbs, they revel more and more in their wickedness, and fix
themselves upon the larger dioceses. Who can adequately describe the
enormities they have already perpetrated? who is able to recount all
the deeds that they have done? Even very lately, while the Churches
were at peace, and the people worshipping in their congregations, Liberius, Bishop of Rome, Paulinus, Metropolitan of Gaul, Dionysius, Metropolitan of Italy, Lucifer, Metropolitan of the Sardinian islands, and Eusebius of Italy, all of them good Bishops and preachers of the truth, were seized and banished, on no pretence whatever, except that they would not unite themselves to the Arian heresy, nor subscribe to the false accusations and calumnies which they had invented against me.