ge and diabolical frenzy: great and small, slaves and freedmen,
monks and clergy, the natives of the land, who opposed the synod of
Chalcedon, lost their speech and reason, barked like dogs, and tore,
with their own teeth the flesh from their hands and arms." [71]

[Footnote 67: See, in the Appendix to the Acts of Chalcedon, the
confirmation of the Synod by Marcian, (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1781, 1783;)
his letters to the monks of Alexandria, (p. 1791,) of Mount Sinai,
(p. 1793,) of Jerusalem and Palestine, (p. 1798;) his laws against the
Eutychians, (p. 1809, 1811, 1831;) the correspondence of Leo with the
provincial synods on the revolution of Alexandria, (p. 1835--1930.)]

[Footnote 68: Photius (or rather Eulogius of Alexandria) confesses, in a
fine passage, the specious color of this double charge against Pope Leo
and his synod of Chalcedon, (Bibliot. cod. ccxxv. p. 768.) He waged a
double war against the enemies of the church, and wounded either
foe with the darts of his adversary. Against Nestorius he seemed to
introduce Monophysites; against Eutyches he appeared to countenance the
Nestorians. The apologist claims a charitable interpretation for the
saints: if the same had been extended to the heretics, the sound of the
controversy would have been lost in the air]

[Footnote 69: From his nocturnal expeditions. In darkness and disguise
he crept round the cells of the monastery, and whispered the revelation
to his slumbering brethren, (Theodor. Lector. l. i.)]

[Footnote 70: Such is the hyperbolic language of the Henoticon.]

[Footnote 71: See the Chronicle of Victor Tunnunensis, in the Lectiones
Antiquae of Canisius, republished by Basnage, tom. 326.]

The disorders of thirty years at length produced the famous Henoticon
[72] of the emperor Zeno, which in his reign, and in that of Anastasius,
was signed by all the bishops of the East, under the penalty of
degradation and exile, if they rejected or infringed this salutary and
fundamental law. The clergy may smile or groan at the presumption of
a layman who defines the articles of faith; yet if he stoops to the
humiliating task, his mind is less infected by prejudice or interest,
and the authority of the magistrate can only be maintained by the
concord of the people. It is in ecclesiastical story, that Zeno appears
least contemptible; and I am not able to discern any Manichaean or
Eutychian guilt in the generous saying of Anastasius. That it was
unworthy of an emper