After the Council of Milan

Are they satisfied with all this, then, and content to be quiet from now on? By no means. They have not given up yet. Like the leech in the Proverbs, they revel more and more in their wickedness and fasten themselves on the larger dioceses. Who can fully describe the outrages they have already committed? Who is able to recount all the deeds they have done? Even very recently, while the churches were at peace and the people were worshiping in their congregations, Liberius, bishop of Rome, Paulinus, metropolitan of Gaul, Dionysius, metropolitan of Italy, Lucifer, metropolitan of the Sardinian islands, and Eusebius of Italy, all of them good bishops and preachers of the truth, were seized and banished. There was no pretext whatever, except that they would not join themselves to the Arian heresy, nor sign the false accusations and slanders the Arians had invented against me. [a]