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Chapter Eight: Ambrose and the Politics of Control
1 Julian, Contra Galilaeos, 113D (Wilmer Wright translation, London, 1961).
2 Ayres, p.70.
3 Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 21:35.
4 Ayres, p.60.
5 ‘I never heard the Nicene creed until I was exiled’, from Hilary’s De Synodis,
91. See Hanson, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God, Chapter Fifteen,
for an account of Hilary’s ideas.
6 Ibid., p.501.
7 Jerome, Epistle 69 : 9. Quoted in Chadwick, p.434.
8 A balanced biography of Ambrose is by N. McLynn. I have drawn heavily on
it for this chapter.
9 De Fide, 2:13.
10 Hanson, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God, pp.672—3.
11 J. N. D. Kelly, p.143. The metaphor originates in one of Aesop’s Tales but is
also found in the works of the poet Horace.
12 Quoted in McLynn, p.114.
13 Symmachus, Relatio (‘Official Dispatch’), 3:5, 8, 10, to be found in Croke
and Harries, pp.37—8. See Matthews, Western Aristocracies, pp.203—11, for
discussion of the conflict.
14 Croke and Harries, Chapter Two, for the text of Ambrose’s reply.