hes, and as they were
not inspired with the zeal of martyrdom, they successively subscribed
a blank paper, which was afterwards filled with the condemnation of the
Byzantine pontiff. Flavian was instantly delivered to the wild beasts of
this spiritual amphitheatre: the monks were stimulated by the voice and
example of Barsumas to avenge the injuries of Christ: it is said that
the patriarch of Alexandria reviled, and buffeted, and kicked, and
trampled his brother of Constantinople: [61] it is certain, that the
victim, before he could reach the place of his exile, expired on the
third day of the wounds and bruises which he had received at Ephesus.
This second synod has been justly branded as a gang of robbers and
assassins; yet the accusers of Dioscorus would magnify his violence, to
alleviate the cowardice and inconstancy of their own behavior.

[Footnote 59: Dixi Cyrillum dum viveret, auctoritate sua effecisse, ne
Eutychianismus et Monophysitarum error in nervum erumperet: idque verum
puto...aliquo... honesto modo cecinerat. The learned but cautious
Jablonski did not always speak the whole truth. Cum Cyrillo lenius
omnino egi, quam si tecum aut cum aliis rei hujus probe gnaris et aequis
rerum aestimatoribus sermones privatos conferrem, (Thesaur. Epistol. La
Crozian. tom. i. p. 197, 198) an excellent key to his dissertations on
the Nestorian controversy!]

[Footnote 60: At the request of Dioscorus, those who were not able to
roar, stretched out their hands. At Chalcedon, the Orientals disclaimed
these exclamations: but the Egyptians more consistently declared.
(Concil. tom. iv. p. 1012.)]

[Footnote 61: (Eusebius, bishop of Dorylaeum): and this testimony of
Evagrius (l. ii. c. 2) is amplified by the historian Zonaras, (tom. ii.
l. xiii. p. 44,) who affirms that Dioscorus kicked like a wild ass. But
the language of Liberatus (Brev. c. 12, in Concil. tom. vi. p. 438)
is more cautious; and the Acts of Chalcedon, which lavish the names
of homicide, Cain, &c., do not justify so pointed a charge. The monk
Barsumas is more particularly accused, (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1418.)]

The faith of Egypt had prevailed: but the vanquished party was supported
by the same pope who encountered without fear the hostile rage of Attila
and Genseric. The theology of Leo, his famous tome or epistle on
the mystery of the incarnation, had been disregarded by the synod of
Ephesus: his authority, and that of the Latin church, was insulted in
his le