'You will see that he will again enter the church,
listen to the service, retire to his little chapel near the Pincian
Mount, and there, before his ragged mob of adherents, attack the
doctrines which our brethren have preached, as we know he did last
night, and as we suspect he will continue to do until the authorities
think proper to give the signal for his imprisonment.'
'I marvel that he should have been permitted to persist so long a time
as he has in his course of contumacy towards the Church. Have we not
evidence enough in his writings alone to convict him of heresy? The
carelessness of the bishop upon such a matter as this is quite
inexplicable!'
'You should consider, Numerian not being a priest, that the carelessness
about our interests lies more with the senate than the bishop. What
time our nobles can spare from their debaucheries has been lately given
to discussions on the conduct of the Emperor in retiring to Ravenna, and
will now be dedicated to penetrating the basis of this rumour about the
Goths.
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