Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume II/Socrates/Book IV/Chapter 35

.&#8212;Abatement of Persecution against the Christians because of the War with the Goths.

barbarians having been put into possession of Thrace, and securely enjoying that Roman province, were unable to bear their good fortune with moderation; but committing hostile aggressions upon their benefactors, devastated all Thrace and the adjacent countries. When these proceedings came to the knowledge of Valens, he desisted from sending the adherents of the homoousion into banishment; and in great alarm left Antioch, and came to Constantinople, where also the persecution of the orthodox Christians was for the same reason come to an end. At the same time Euzo&#239;us, bishop of the Arians at Antioch, departed this life, in the fifth consulate

of Valens, and the first of Valentinian the younger; and Dorotheus was appointed in his place.