This ecclesiastical history opens with Constantine’s reign, the rival emperors Maxentius and Maximinus, Maxentius’s tyranny, and the cross seen in the sky, of which Constantine made a standard. It then turns to Licinius, the renewal of the churches, and the holy synod at Nicaea against Arius.
The author says he read the acts of Nicaea in an ancient parchment book that had belonged to Dalmatius, archbishop of the church of Cyzicus, and had come to his own father, a presbyter of that church. He could not hold the whole sea of it in memory, so he noted the fathers’ dogmas, their written refutations of the Arian blasphemy against the Son and the Spirit, and the philosophers’ debates with the bishops.
Heinemann printed the Greek in Gelasius Kirchengeschichte (Leipzig, 1918). The slot is that Nicaean church history, not a poet.
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