Liberatus,
(Brev. c. 11, 12, 13, 14.) Once more, and almost for the last time,
I appeal to the diligence of Tillemont, (Mem. Eccles. tom. xv. p.
479-719.) The annals of Baronius and Pagi will accompany me much further
on my long and laborious journey.]

[Footnote 63: (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1276.) A specimen of the wit and
malice of the people is preserved in the Greek Anthology, (l. ii. c.
5, p. 188, edit. Wechel,) although the application was unknown to the
editor Brodaeus. The nameless epigrammatist raises a tolerable pun,
by confounding the episcopal salutation of "Peace be to all!" with
the genuine or corrupted name of the bishop's concubine: I am ignorant
whether the patriarch, who seems to have been a jealous lover, is the
Cimon of a preceding epigram, was viewed with envy and wonder by Priapus
himself.]

For these scandalous offences, Dioscorus was deposed by the synod, and
banished by the emperor; but the purity of his faith was declared in the
presence, and with the tacit approbation, of the fathers. Their prudence
supposed rather than pronounced the heresy of Eutyches, who was never
summoned before their tribunal; and they sat silent and abashed, when
a bold Monophysite casting at their feet a volume of Cyril, challenged
them to anathematize in his person the doctrine of the saint. If we
fairly peruse the acts of Chalcedon as they are recorded by the orthodox
party, [64] we shall find that a great majority of the bishops embraced
the simple unity of Christ; and the ambiguous concession that he
was formed Of or From two natures, might imply either their previous
existence, or their subsequent confusion, or some dangerous interval
between the conception of the man and the assumption of the God.
The Roman theology, more positive and precise, adopted the term most
offensive to the ears of the Egyptians, that Christ existed In two
natures; and this momentous particle [65] (which the memory, rather than
the understanding, must retain) had almost produced a schism among
the Catholic bishops. The tome of Leo had been respectfully, perhaps
sincerely, subscribed; but they protested, in two successive debates,
that it was neither expedient nor lawful to transgress the sacred
landmarks which had been fixed at Nice, Constantinople, and Ephesus,
according to the rule of Scripture and tradition. At length they yielded
to the importunities of their masters; but their infallible decree,
after it had been ratified with delibera