2) has mentioned this important commission of Sapor, which Tillemont (Hist.

des Empereurs, tom.v.p.

728) judiciously removes from the reign of Gratian to that of Theodosius.] [Footnote 40: I do not reckon Philostorgius, though he mentions (l.
ix.c.

19) the explosion of Damophilus.

The Eunomian historian has been carefully strained through an orthodox sieve.] The hope, that truth and wisdom would be found in the assemblies of the orthodox clergy, induced the emperor to convene, at Constantinople, a synod of one hundred and fifty bishops, who proceeded, without much difficulty or delay, to complete the theological system which had been established in the council of Nice.