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 you may stretch out your hand.” Ep. lxx. ad Damasum, T. iii. p. 164. He writes again to the Bishops of the West : “ Eustathius of Sebaste, being deposed at Melitina, devised himself the means whereby to procure his restoration. He went to you. What was proposed to him by the Roman Bishop, and to what he agreed, we know not. We know only, that he brought a letter, which, when he had shewn to the Synod of Thyana, he was reinstated in his See." Ep. cclxiii. al. lxxiv. T. iii. p. 406.

St. DAMASUS, BISHOP OF ROME, L. C. He writes to the Eastern Bishops, assembled at Constantinople: “It redounds much to your own honour, thus to have shewn due respect to this Apostolic See. But why do you again demand from mers) the deposition of Timotheus, who, together with his master, the heretic Apollinaris, was here deposed by the sentence of our See, in the presence of the Bishop of Alexandria?” Ep. ii. Conc. Gen. T. ii. p. 866.

St. OPTATUS OF MILEVIS, L. C. “ You cannot deny," he says to Parmenianus, “that St. Peter, the chief of the Apostles, established an episcopal Chair at Rome: this Chair was one. It was in this one Chair, which is the first mark of the Church, that St. Peter first sat; to St. Peter succeeded Linus, and after him others, till Damasus, who is now our colleague, by whose means all other Churches of the world are united with us in the same communion, keeping correspondence by circular letters.” De Schism. Donat. L. ii. P. 28.

ST. JEROM. L. C. ''See the quotation at p. 87.