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Arius, and his Followers. Philostorgius. 597
' was fresh, and in places were he saw many of" his followers.
' All this, joined with unconinion knowledjL»e and eloquence,
' rendered Eiisebius the most proper man in the world to
' teach us both the history and the opinions of that heresi-
arch. But the envy of the Greeks, or their inunoderate zeal
against the Arians, has caused the loss of all the works or
this excellent personage, except a few remains preserved
by the Syrians.'
12. Lucius, the Arian bishop at Alexandria after Athanasius,
as'" Jerom says, pul)lished some small pieces upon
divers subjects: for which cause Jerom has given him a
place in his Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers, and I
have put his words at the bottom of the page, and refer to
some others" for a fuller account.
13. Maximin, an Arian bishop, with whom Augustine, in
the year 427 or 428, had a public disputation or conference,
still" extant. And soon after that conference, Augustine
wrote two books against Maximin, likewise in being\ Having
already i" exhil)ite(l his testimony to the scriptures, T need
not add any thing farther here.
14. Philostorg'ius was born about the year^ 368, at a
village in Cappadocia. His"^ father's name was Carterius,
his mother's Eulampia, only daughter of a presbyter named
Anysius, who however had four sons besides. His mother's
ancestors, both by the father's and mother's side, were
Homoiisians : but Carterius was a follower of Eunomius.
He brought over his w'ife to his own opinion ; she persuaded
her brothers, at length her father and other relations. Of this
opinion Philostorgius makes open profession; that is, he did
not believe the Son of God to be like the Father. When
he was twenty^ years of age, he went to Constantinople to
improve himself in learning.
His Ecclesiastical History, in' two parts, making* in all
twelve books, was published about the year 425, in the time
of the emperor Theodosius the younger, in whose reign like-
Avise wrote those other historians, Socrates, Sozomen, and
Theodoret ; containing- the history of affairs from the beginning
of the Arian controversy, or about the year 300, to that
time. The work itself is lost, but we have large extracts
'" Lucius, post Athanasium Arianee partis episcopus usque ad Theodosium
principem, a quo est pulsus, Alexandrinam ecclesiam tenuit. Exstant ejus
solennes de Pascha epistolae, et pauci variarum hypolheseon libelii. De V. I,
c. 118. " Vid. Cav. Hist. Lit. et Tilleni. Les Ariens, Art.
123, &c. ° Vid, August. Opp. T. viii.
P See p. 582, 583. " Vid. Cav. Hist. L. T. 1. p. 410.
' Vid. Philost. 1. ix. c. 9. ' Id. 1. x. c. 6.
' Vid. Phot. cod. 40.