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When he arrived at Ravenna,in 1072, he found the unfortunate prelate just dead; but brought {452}the accomplices of his crimes to a sense of their guilt, and imposed onthem a suitable penance. But the enemy of mankind sowing between them the seeds ofdiscord, this their friendship was succeeded by the most implacablehatred, and they declined meeting each other in the streets. beginning of these disturbances, the eunuch wasdisgraced, and soon after put to death; and the empress Eudoxia obligedto retire to Jerusalem. Do not listen to this unhappy man.

But the remembrance of your bitter sufferings covers me withshame, confusion, and tears, for myself and my sins. When Quintilian the proconsul arrived at Smyrna, he causedPionius to be hung on the rack, and his body to be torn with iron hooks,and 552On the Writings of St. He undertook to sailthrough the deep sea of this mortal life securely, under the directionof a prudent gui