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Lo! even Alypius also, former vice-governor of Britain,Cf. xxiii. 1, 2, end. a man amiable and gentle, after living in leisure and retirement—since even as far as this had injustice stretched her hand—was made to wallow in utmost wretchedness; he was accused with his son Hierocles, a young man of good character, as guilty of magic, on the sole evidence of a certain Diogenes, a man of low origin, who was tortured with every degree of butchery, to lead him to give testimony agreeable to the emperor, or rather to the instigator of the charge. Diogenes, when not enough of his body was left for torture, was burned alive; Alypius himself also, after confiscation of his goods, was condemned to exile, but recovered his son, who was already being led to a wretched death,According to St. John Chrysostom, Orat. 3, De Incomprehensibili Dei Natura, Hierocles was being led to the Hippodrome, when all the people, who had gathered before the emperor’s palace, cried out for his pardon. but by a lucky chance was reprieved.
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During all this time, the notorious Palladius, the fomenterOr curdler. Literally the rennet. of all these troubles, who, as we said at first,1, 5. was taken in custody by Fortunatianus, being by the very lowness of his condition ready to plunge into anything, by heaping disaster on disaster, had drenched the whole empire with grief and tears.
