Note 050 Palladius owns (p. 30 [c.8, p. 75]) that if the people of Constantinople had found Theophilus, they would certainly have thrown him into the sea. Socrates mentions (1. vi. c. 17) a battle between the mob and the sailors of Alexandria, in which many wounds were given, and some lives were lost. The massacre of the monks is observed only by the Pagan Zosimus (1. v. [c. 23] p. 324), who acknowledges that Chrysostom had a singular talent to lead the illiterate multitude,

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 32