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Gregory was invited to make thesetwo discourses, in 385, when he was at Constantinople. In the followinghomilies he extols the absolute necessity of this mortification, tocrucify in us the o His conversation was on God or heavenly things, and he would haveregretted a single moment, which had not been employed with God or forhis honor, as utterly lost. This massacre happened in the reign of Constantine II.

Nor have we any thing else of that work of the Apostate,but what is preserved here by St. in Excalt. The remains of the steeples are still discoverable, under water, about five miles from the shore. They readilydeclared themselves Christians, together with the motive of theirjourney; upon which they were apprehended.