21/36 Montfaucon.) I do not pretend to much personal acquaintance with Chrysostom but Tillemont (Hist.des.Empereurs, tom.v.p. 263-283) and Hermant (Vie de St. 137-224) had read him with pious curiosity and diligence.] The sedition of Thessalonica is ascribed to a more shameful cause, and was productive of much more dreadful consequences. That great city, the metropolis of all the Illyrian provinces, had been protected from the dangers of the Gothic war by strong fortifications and a numerous garrison. |