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Rh successor to Nestorius a man was elected, Maximian by name, with whom he could be quite satisfied. And when the emperor, though no decision had been reached at Chalcedon, officially dissolved the council, Cyril's return to Alexandria was allowed and Memnon was permitted to remain in his office at Ephesus.

This change of feeling in the court is explained by Nestorius in a passage of his Treatise of Heraclides by the fact, as he thinks, that Cyril gave or promised much money to the count John and through him to the emperor. He presumes, that the favour which John showed towards him was as unreal as his disfavour towards Cyril, as this disfavour only enabled him to let Cyril escape from custody. The narration by which Nestorius tries to prove this assertion is very similar