The church history of Socrates Scholasticus, from Constantine's conversion in 306 to the year 439: Nicaea, Arius and Athanasius, the emperors after Constantine, the councils and quarrels of the fourth and early fifth centuries. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1890), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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Contents
Book 4
1Valentinian and Valens Become Emperors2Valens Persecutes the Homoousians at Antioch3The Usurper Procopius4The Synod at Lampsacus5The Defeat and Death of Procopius6Valens Forces Eleusius to Sign7Eunomius at Cyzicus8The Oracle Found in the Walls of Chalcedon9Valens Persecutes the Novatians10Birth of Valentinian the Younger11Great Hail and Earthquakes12The Macedonians Sign the Nicene Creed Before Liberius13Eunomius Breaks with Eudoxius; Athanasius Hides14Demophilus and Evagrius at Constantinople15Evagrius and Eustathius Banished16Eighty Clergy Burned at Sea17Valens Persecutes at Antioch Again18The Faithful of Edessa19Valens Kills Men Whose Names Began with Theod20Death of Athanasius21Lucius Set over the Church of Alexandria22Peter Flees to Rome and the Monks Are Massacred23The Holy Men of the Egyptian Desert24The Monks Attacked and Their Leaders Banished25Didymus the Blind26Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus27Gregory the Wonder-Worker28The Novatians of Phrygia Change the Day of Easter29Damasus Made Bishop of Rome, and the Rivalry of Ursinus30Ambrose Chosen Bishop of Milan31The Death of Valentinian32Themistius Softens Valens33The Goths Become Christians34Valens Takes In the Fleeing Goths35The Gothic War Halts the Persecution36Moses, Bishop of the Saracens37Peter Restored at Alexandria38The Death of Valens at Adrianople