His Treatment of Melania

There is also an astonishing thing he did concerning Melania, which I must not pass over in silence, for the shame that those who hear of it may feel. She was the granddaughter of the consul Marcellinus. In these very Chronicles he had told how she was the first lady of the Roman nobility to visit Jerusalem, how she had left her son, then a little child, behind her at Rome, and how the name of Thecla was given her because of her outstanding merit and virtue. But afterward, when he found that this lady, through the stricter discipline of her life, disapproved of some of his doings, he erased her name from all the copies of his work. [a]

I have had to gather the large number of passages I have brought forward from his works, so as to test the truth of his statement that it is only in two short prefaces that he mentioned Origen with praise, and that not for his faith but for his talent; that he praised in him the commentator, not the teacher of doctrine. I have in fact brought forward ten.