“ Subjected to continual pressure the old man, who was near his hundredth year, was weak enough to sign the formula adopted by the second synod of Sirmium in 357, which involved communion with the Arians but not the condemnation of Athanasius. ”

“ See S. Tillemont, Mémoires, vii. 300–321 (1700) ; Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, vol. i.; H. M. Gwatkin, Studies of Arianism (Cambridge, 1882, 2nd ed., 1900) ; A. W. W. Dale, The Synod of Elvira (London, 1882) ”