Valens Persecutes at Antioch Again

The emperor Valens, little moved by the disasters that came from the famine, went to Antioch in Syria, and while he was living there he cruelly persecuted all who would not embrace Arianism. Not content with driving those who held the homoousian opinion out of almost all the churches of the East, he also inflicted various punishments on them. He killed even more of them than before, handing them over to many different kinds of death, but especially drowning in the river.