Note 151 The praises which Sozomen has bestowed on this act of despair appear strange and scandalous in the mouth of an ecclesiastical historian. He observes (p. 379 [ed. Cantab. 1720]) that the wife of Gerontius was a Christian; and that her death was worthy of her religion, and of immortal fame.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 31