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in it.
16
This account has been shortened from that of Gregorovius, i. 231-5.
17
Giesebrecht, quoted by Hergenröther,
18
Hergenröther, i. 449-453.
19
Reumont, ii. 6.
20
Reumont, ii. 9.
21
Reumont (ii. 29-42) gives an admirable sketch of the government of Theodorich, by which I have profited in what follows.
22
Montalembert, Gregorovius, Kurth. Philips (vol. iii., p. 51, sec. 119), remarks: "Wäre Theodorich der Grosse nicht Arianer gewesen, so würde, wenn er es sonst gewollt, ihm wohl nichts weiter im Wege gestanden haben, als sich zum Römischen kaiser im Abendlande ausrufen lassen".
23
Gregorovius, i. 312, 315.
24
Orosius,
25
Photius, i. 111.
26
Photius, i. 120.
27
Guizot,
28
Edict of Valentinian III., in 447.
29
See Philips,
30
Tillemont, xvi. 68.
31
Simplicii,
32
Pope Gelasius, 13th letter.
33
Mansi, vii. 1032-6; Jaffé, 359.
34
Mansi, vii. 1028; Jaffé, 360.
35
Photius, i. 123, translated.
36
Mansi, vii. 1065; Baronius (anno 484), 17; Jaffé, 364.
37
It is to be observed that the Pope calls his judgment the Judgment of the Holy Ghost, just as Pope Clement I. did in the first recorded judgment. See his letter, secs. 58, 59, 63, quoted in
38
Photius, i. 124.
39
Mansi, vii. 1139; Baronius (anno 484), 26, 27.
40
Domini sacerdotes.
41
Jaffé, 365; Mansi, vii. 1065.
42
iv. 16.
43
Silentiarius, in the Greek court, officers who kept silence in the emperor's presence.
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45
"The recital of a name in the diptychs was a formal declaration of Church fellowship, or even a sort of canonisation and invocation. It was contrary to all Church principles to permit in them the name of anyone condemned by the Church." —