Petrus (10) (surnamed Fullo, "the Fuller"), intruding patriarch
of Antioch, 471–488, a Monophysite, took his surname from his former trade as
a fuller of cloth. Tillemont shews considerable skill in harmonizing various
statements of his earlier life (Empereurs, t. vi. p. 404). He considers
that Peter was originally a member of the convent of the Acoimetae, which he
places in Bithynia on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, and being expelled
thence for dissolute life and heretical doctrine, passed over to Constantinople, where he became a parasite to persons of distinction, by whom he was introduced to Zeno, the future emperor, the son-in-law of Leo, whose favour he secured, obtaining through him the chief place in the church of St. Bassa, at Chalcedon. Here his true character having speedily become known, he fled to Zeno, who was then setting out for Antioch as commander of the East. Arriving at Antioch