ii.
Carmen ix.p.

78) describes his own success with some human complacency.
Yet it should seem, from his familiar conversation with his auditor St.
Jerom, (tom.i.Epist.ad Nepotian.p.

14,) that the preacher understood the true value of popular applause.] [Footnote 36: Lachrymae auditorum laudes tuae sint, is the lively and judicious advice of St.Jerom.] The Catholics of Constantinople were animated with joyful confidence by the baptism and edict of Theodosius; and they impatiently waited the effects of his gracious promise.

Their hopes were speedily accomplished; and the emperor, as soon as he had finished the operations of the campaign, made his public entry into the capital at the head of a victorious army.

The next day after his arrival, he summoned Damophilus to his presence, and offered that Arian prelate the hard alternative of subscribing the Nicene creed, or of instantly resigning, to the orthodox believers, the use and possession of the episcopal palace, the cathedral of St.Sophia, and all the churches of Constantinople.